Word: ee
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...after it. † For Who's Who's 1920-21 edition, Movie Vamp Theda Bara proudly pointed out that her papa had ceased to be a Goodman, was now legally Bernard Bara, to conform with her screen name. During World War I Lady Randolph Churchill (néee Jennie Jerome of Brooklyn) unaccountably failed to list Winston as her son. A correction from Harry Houdini: "I am not a magician, but a mystifier." General Electric Co.'s Wizard Charles Steinmetz described...
Education: Scholarship boy who got through to his B.A. by selling sheet music and singing songs (most spc-cessful: Ramona) on the quais of Le Havre; became lycéee (high school) professor of English and Latin at industrial Arras...
Eydie (pronounced Ee-dee) Gormé, 25, had a solid record hit in Too Close for Comfort (ABC-Paramount), and another is coming up strong in one of those too-innocent-for-comfort ditties called Mama, Teach Me to Dance. She has also accumulated three years of experience on Steve Allen's Tonight. As she sings, her rather long face looks vaguely troubled, and a slight, pathetic wave ruffles her smooth voice. In sweet songs, she sounds reedy and controlled. When she lets go, she squeezes her eyes in a kind of happy passion, and bounces discreetly, until...
...teaching process goes on every minute of the day. Once a teacher heard a little boy crying "eeeeee" while at play, immediately rushed out to make him repeat the sound again and again. Up until that moment, the boy had never been able to pronounce any word with the "ee" sound...
...worn for Lola as she romps about the stage to an insistent Latin rhythm, flinging caution and clothing to the winds. Stretched on a locker-room bench upstage, she sparks the onslaught with a try at the always reliable peek-a-boo technique. "Allo, Joe, it's meee-ee," she coos. A second later she is up and mincing forward as purposefully pigeon-toed as Betty Boop. Along the line two gloves and a skirt fly off; then, as suddenly sultry as the sirocco, Lola wheels to flaunt the angular arabesques of Theda Bara, flicks a shapely backside...