Word: durning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Reading the far-flung accounts of this insignificant event, operagoers were at a loss to discover the reason for Miss Witwer's sudden prominence. Then they read what Miss Witwer's father, the mechanic, had told her after the concert: "You sang like a gol-durn angel." It became obvious that Miss Witwer was being groomed to enter the list of artistically mediocre "favorite daughters" of U. S. opera. Like Grace Moore (TIME, Feb. 20), Marion Talley (TIME, March 1, 1926), she would make her debut surrounded with newspaper reporters and home folks. If she made her debut...
...Durn purty li'l frog...