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Word: groaners (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Booked into Montreal's high-tariff El Morocco nightclub, the four singing sons of aging (55) Groaner Bing Crosby soon found close harmony impossible. Their price tag was $12,500 for a week, but they only lasted three days. They bought their way out of their contract. It all seemed to have something to do with a case of Scotch in their dressing room. Gary, 26, oldest of the quartet, says he lost his voice, but regained it long enough, during the boys' final set, to call a ringside lady "a drunken bum." Cutting the act very short...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Dec. 14, 1959 | 12/14/1959 | See Source »

...bursting with perverse zeal, got to working on a great carved door of Bamberg's 700-year-old cathedral. In the morning, there for all Bambergers to see, stood a legend in German, sloshed in letters a foot and a half high: "Elvis Presley-My God." Dreamboat Groaner Presley was on U.S. Army duty some 100 miles from the scene of his deification...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Oct. 12, 1959 | 10/12/1959 | See Source »

...Born. To Groaner Bing Crosby, 55, and Cinemactress Kathy Grant, 25: their first daughter, second child (Bing's sixth); in Los Angeles. Name: Mary Frances. Weight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Sep. 28, 1959 | 9/28/1959 | See Source »

...Bing Crosby Show (ABC, 9:30-10:30 p.m.). The Groaner could fill up the time by himself. But he has Louis Armstrong, George Shearing and Frank Sinatra to help...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: Time Listings, Sep. 28, 1959 | 9/28/1959 | See Source »

...subjected his boys had not had the desired effect. They were forever getting into scrapes; even the Army had not made disciplined men of them. "They won't listen to me," Bing complained, "and it burns me up." Even his sons' attitude toward money, said the multimillionaire Groaner, seemed silly in the extreme. "It doesn't mean a thing to Gary-and Philip, Dennis and Linny are very tight, so tight it horrifies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: My Father & I | 8/24/1959 | See Source »

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