Word: husking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...seminary's first students lived in cold stone cells with no heat, slept on corn-husk mattresses, fought malaria and fleas. But life was brightened by their robes (all of Rome's foreign seminarians wear robes with national markings). The Irish-Americans who helped found the college considered green, but the final choice was black cassocks with red buttons and sash and blue facings which, together with a white Roman collar, added up to the U.S. colors (the first class even had a brass star on each shoe strap...
...eyes slanted a little and girls with eyes slanted a lot. Amid all the girls, one stands out in twilight softness. When she first appears, her slow, sloe eyes look down, ever so shy. Then she bounces her head in a pert little Chinese kowtow and the hoarse, sweet husk of her voice sounds hauntingly soft. "Ten thousand benedictions...
...fields a line of first-class talent most clubs would hock their silverware to buy. Its big neon bill of fare regularly blazons such names as Harry Belafonte, Jerry Lewis, Sophie Tucker, Milton Berle, Tony Bennett. Last week, even with an ailing (laryngitis) Judy Garland as its husk-voiced headliner. the T. & C. was packing upwards of 2,000 patrons a show (including those in the bar and private dining room) under its high, star-spattered ceiling...
Last week the Hi-Lo's brought their far-from-tattered voices to Manhattan for the first time, and proved to the jazz-wise Birdland audience that when they are not kidding, they can husk out just about the slickest sound in the current trade. "We like to sing," says Hi-Lo's Leader Gene Puerling, "almost like a string quartet...
...says its ad. "enjoys the brilliant reputation of being 'The Place' "). The bored piano trio that alternates with the featured singer specializes in smooth-as-cream show tunes and a sleepy metronome beat. In pink satin pajamas, West Coast Pianist-Singer Kitty White pounds out a bouncing, husk-voiced version of Almost Like Being in Love, clowns through a rubber-faced Love for Sale. Her most effective number. Mountain High, Valley Low, stops the whispers and the tinkle of ice for a time before the dim red lights...