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Word: crooner (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Best box-office attraction in the Near East is tall, sleepy-eyed, sickly Mohammed Abdul-Wahab, Egypt's premier crooner and actor. Once an unlettered tailor's assistant in Cairo, Crooner Abdul-Wahab has since amassed a fortune by composing tunes which were a hybrid of Oriental and Western music. He put the songs in screen romances and, with himself in the leading role, soon became the matinee idol of Cairo, Bagdad, Damascus, Jerusalem and outposts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Crooner | 1/16/1939 | See Source »

Autry's revolutionary contribution to westerns was a soft, sleepy-sounding baritone voice. A onetime telegrapher for the St. Louis-San Francisco Railway, who had used his ample spare time in learning to sing and strum the guitar, Autry had later become a crooner of plains ballads for smalltime radio stations. When Republic decided to try to save westerns with the experiment of a singing cowboy, he was selected for the spot and succeeded instantly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Nov. 14, 1938 | 11/14/1938 | See Source »

Died. Con Conrad (real name: Conrad K. Dober), 49, famed songwriter (Barney Google, Memory Lane, Margie), divorced husband of Actress Francine Larrimore, discoverer of Sob-singer Helen Morgan and Crooner Bing Crosby; after long illness; in Van Nuys, Calif...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Oct. 10, 1938 | 10/10/1938 | See Source »

Married. George Robert ("Bob") Crosby, 26, swing bandmaster, younger brother of Crooner Bing Crosby; and June Audrey Kuhn, 19-year-old Chicagoan; in Spokane, Wash. Swingmaster Crosby divorced his first wife last spring...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Oct. 3, 1938 | 10/3/1938 | See Source »

...three incumbent representatives*-Republicans all (Messrs, Oliver, Smith, Brewster)-confused their New Deal issue by all plumping for the vote-catching Townsend Plan of old-age pensions. Republican Governor Lewis O. Barrows had the benefit of an anti-third-term tradition against former Governor Louis J. Brann, for whom Crooner Rudy Vallée stumped at the last moment. That all four Republicans won was less of a weather vane than a what-is-it, unless significance lay in the vote ratios-5 to 4 Republican this year (gubernatorial) as against 4 to 3 Republican...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MAINE: What-Is-It? | 9/19/1938 | See Source »

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