Word: honkeytonk
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Ginger Rogers and Allen Kearns - the Easterner whose father has banished him to the badlands. But biggest asset to the show is the person of Ethel Merman who, as a honkeytonk singer, strolls out on the stage at the Act I finale and electrifies spectators by shouting "Sam & Delilah," an extremely low-down Gershwinian num - ber with a deep blue base. It is also Miss Merman who, in another piece, croons...
...first; Weaver at shortstop is the best of the three. Quick on his feet as a puma, he covers a huge amount of ground; his batting average is over .500; gangling cowboys ride hundreds of miles to yell at him; gamblers, preachers, saloon keepers, dance hall girls from the honkeytonk towns across the border bet their dirty money on his team; the Chambermen of Commerce are glad he lives in Douglas...
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