Word: flopper
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...only twice in her life: on tours to Canada and Cuba. Her father ran a drugstore in St. Louis. Her mother, Clara Stuhr, was famous among the Midwest's German-American singing societies for her soprano. Traubel herself got an early reputation as the best belly-flopper among Forest Park's sledders, a massive destroyer of chocolate ice-cream sodas, and an almost maniacal fan of the St. Louis Cardinals. At 15, with her mother's help, she began slowly and methodically cultivating her voice. She continued doing so, in relative obscurity, for more than 20 years...