Word: crooner
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...just brassy and unkempt. Its purple-lighted torch songs and arty anatomical dances have a bygone, almost burlesque air about them; its way of joking is as familiar as its jokes. As a result, several talented people have a lot of trouble proving that they are. Handsome Crooner Carol Bruce can only be huskily banal; Nancy Walker is amusingly tough at times, but in general the going is tougher. Amid so much theatrical wet wash, only Hank Ladd's slow easy patter seems properly laundered...
...crowd of 300 Manhattan autograph seekers surrounded a crooner named Jack Carroll (né Gaetano Riccio), knocked him down, yanked off his tie and belt, went through his pockets, and then jumped on him until the cops came...
...middle of a round of golf one day last spring, Capitalist John Hay Whitney and Crooner Bing Crosby began to talk about-of all things-frozen orange juice concentrate. "Jock" Whitney thought he had hold of a good business proposition, and by the time they had got to the 19th Bing was all ears. Last week the Whitney-dominated Vacuum Foods Corp. (Minute Maid frozen orange juice concentrate) announced the deal they made...
...Angeles,"after three years of marriage, Dick Powell, 44, baby-faced crooner turned cinema tough, and June Allyson, 24, baby-faced cinemingenue, adopted a two-month-old baby girl...
Born. To Francis Albert ("The Voice") Sinatra, 30, crooner, and Nancy Barbato Sinatra, 28: their third child, second daughter; in Los Angeles. Name: Christina. Weight...