Word: crooner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Summoned to a Bronx, N. Y. traffic court for illegal parking, Henry Worthington Armstrong,* who in 1903 composed the music for Sweet Adeline (original title: Sweet Rosalie), was asked by Magistrate Richard McKiniry to sing the ballad's seldom-heard verse (what every crooner knows is merely the chorus). Composer Armstrong cleared his throat, sang, "In the evening when I sit alone a-dreaming . . ." was shortly interrupted by the critical magistrate: "I ought to fine you for your singing, but I won't. Sentence suspended...
...Birthday engagements at home detained several eligibles, but the Grand Ballroom resounded with self-congratulation and party hope, and plenty of Republican renascents held forth. They were toastmastered by Illinois' heroic young C. Wayland ("Curley") Brooks, unsuccessful candidate for Governor in 1936, who looks and sounds just like Crooner Harry Richman. Blushful in his bows, but silent because he was still engaged in his second prosecution of Tammany's Jimmy Hines (which may keep his name alive this year) was New York's slim black fox, District Attorney Tom Dewey, currently the G.O.P.'s leading candidate...
MIAMI, Fia,-Court of Crimes Judge Wayne Allen today gave Rudy Vallee benefit of a "reasonable doubt," and dismissed charges of assault and battery brought against the crooner by a busboy in a Miami night club...
There the hillbillies and 37 other bands tooted in turn for five hours, and 10,000 school children raised their voices in chorus. At last Crooner O'Daniel stood up to take his inaugural oath as Governor...
...Crooner Abdul-Wahab will take no less than $400 for singing in the flesh-a fee the Italians never saw their way to giving him. On the British program, besides a coterie of other Arabic talent, broadminded Crooner Abdul-Wahab in person cleared his voice, began his popular warbling, sang in Arabic an "ode to Shakespeare." His fee for helping British imperialism along: $625 an appearance...