Word: joshed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last winter they decided to try for full-time work at Manhattan's Village Vanguard, where other folk singers (Richard Dyer-Bennett, Burl Ives and Josh White) got their start. After a one-night trial, they got a two-week contract at $50 a head, stayed for six months. Singing loud & clear or sweet & low, they found they could get noisy nightclubbers to quiet down for everything from Southern work songs and African chants to Indonesian lullabies and mountain hymns...
...Topper" Reynolds grew up, Libby stopped singing Moanin' Low, Body and Soul and the other torch songs that made her famous. She studied serious drama, collected American folk music, and learned from left-wing Negro Balladeer Josh White how to sing with the proper guttiness. In 1939, she got married again, to Ralph Holmes, an actor eleven years her junior. But that marriage, too, ended in the moody sadness Libby used to sing about. Holmes died in 1945 from an overdose of sleeping pills...
...Copenhagen airport, junketing Eleanor Roosevelt was greeted by U.S. Ambassadress Eugenie Anderson, Danish Foreign Minister Gustav Rasmussen and American Ballad Singer Josh White. Accompanied by son Elliott, she went on to The Netherlands for a little visit with Queen Juliana and Prince Bernhard in Soestdijk palace. She also drove to her family's ancestral home, Oud-Vossemeer, where the whole town, including 40 local Roosevelts, turned out to cheer her. In Luxembourg, she went to a banquet given for her by Grand Duchess Charlotte, took Madam Minister Perle Mesta out to lay a wreath on the grave of General...
Then the 80 men get to work is earnest, as Ted Schmitt, one of the assistants, led them through 15 minutes of calisthenics. Group work followed, with Norm Shepard and Josh Williams handling the backs, Schmitt and Joe Maras, linemen, Henry Lamar, ends, and Jordan going from group to group...
Harold M. "Josh" Williams of the University of Pittsburgh will be Lloyd Jordan's backfield coach, William J. Bingham '16 announced last night. The 45-year-old football mentor is the second assistant from Pitt to be appointed to Coach Jordan's staff...