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Word: croonings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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what does little Ernest croon in his death at afternoon? (kow dow r 2 bid retoinis wus de woids uf lil Oinis Those who would like to see a good take-off on the white cult of the Negro will find one in Poem...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Buzzard of Is | 5/20/1935 | See Source »

...International, Second Edition cost $1,300,000 to prepare. Prices range from $20 to $35. Because there are some 3,000,000 words in the English language, the editors could not hope to include every one. They defined croon and croon song, drew the line at crooner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Eleventh Webster | 7/9/1934 | See Source »

Conrad, who has a contract with the National Broadcasting Company and sings in the Lucky Strike hour, will not bring his orchestra, but he will be on hand to croon with the other bands at the dance and will supply other special entertainment...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lew Conrad To Sing for 1937 At Jubilee Dance This May | 5/8/1934 | See Source »

Miss Colbert performs admirably, and emulates her role of the suffering Sally Trent as a torch singer under the assumed name of Mimi Benton, with a soothing croon which is good enough for any night club. Her wispy overtones are accompanied by the sweet harmony of Abe Lyman's band, and her "Give Me Liberty or Give Me Love," has more direct bearing on the plot than theme songs in most movies we have seen recently...

Author: By G. V. G., | Title: AT THE UNIVERSITY | 11/14/1933 | See Source »

...little absurdity about an institution called Midwest (football rival: Yarwood) where Jack Oakie is the dormitory dunce, Lona Andre the campus belle, Richard Aden a neurotic footballer, and Bing Crosby the professor of music. With that inappropriate calm which is his chief distinction, Crosby yodels songs called "Learn to Croon," "Play Ball," "Moon-struck," ''The Old Ox Road." Paramount, more versatile than its competitors, has two types of musical pictures. Those in which Maurice Chevalier is directed by Ernst Lubitsch are for metropolitan consumption. The others, of which this is a fair sample, contain as many radio clowns...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Musicomedies of the Week | 7/3/1933 | See Source »

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