Word: crooner
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Africa, nettled Afrikaner Nationalist Politico Paul Sauer by his imperial arrival in Cape Town. Egg-bald Sauer took the teakwood floor of the House of Assembly to fume: "The Governor of our sister state [Southern Rhodesia's Sir Evelyn Baring] traveled in a small coupe compartment but the crooner (a crooner is someone who sings as if something were wrong with his throat) came in a special coach. Have we lost our balance to such an extent that we make heroes of film actors and music-hall luminaries at the state expense?" Twitted a Cape Towner: "Please, Mr. Sauer...
Joan Blondell, bouncy cinemarmful whose eight-year-old marriage to Crooner Dick Powell (her second) has been one of Hollywood's most sunnily publicized unions, announced that she would sue for divorce, reissued the dated doggerel she had indited after her first divorce...
...form of a Newark draft board, which dourly foureffed America's big noise of the year, a loved-up character known as Frank Sinatra to most and Oooooofrankie to a select few who poured over $6,000 in the till of the R.K.O. Boston last week when crooner Sinatra came to sample of the bean...
...Tommy Dorsey, who had owned a third of him for nearly a year. When the singer quit Dorsey's band last October, he bought off his contract by signing over a third of his earnings-to-come for the next ten years. For full title to himself, the crooner last week paid more than...
Engaged. Lieut. Rudy Vallee, 42, Coast Guard bandmaster; and Bettejane Greer, 18, model, his film-singer protegee; in Hollywood. Cinemactress Fay Webb, the crooner's second wife, divorced him in 1936, died the same year...