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Word: kinsella (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...neighborhood liked her. By the time she was 17 she was singing in a Camden, N.J. nightclub, where she earned, as combination hatcheck-girl, vocalist and electrician, about $85 a week. The turning-point in her career came when she met a handsome, liquid-eyed insurance broker named Frank Kinsella...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Ugly Duckling | 1/28/1946 | See Source »

Cass was a self-conscious girl trying desperately to be pretty. To hide her too-prominent teeth, she pressed her upper lip well down as she sang. Kinsella kept coming to hear her and tried to coach her back into the uninhibited comedy of her childhood. When she insisted on singing with a small mouth he dropped a plate in the middle of her act. Kinsella became so fascinated with the case of Cass that he gave up the insurance business, became Cass's manager, married...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Ugly Duckling | 1/28/1946 | See Source »

Animal Kingdom. At Snake River, Wash., one of four mules which were loaded with firewood and hopefully re leased in the direction of Jack Titus's ranch, eventually turned up with two tele phone poles and 1,320 feet of wire. In But ler, 111., Earl and Roy Kinsella, Bob How ard and Harry Klepper went out coon hunting with a hound which at length got bored with the lack of game, treed all four hunters, and kept them perched aloft until dawn. In Farragut, Idaho, a pet deer named Bambi went right on chewing tobacco...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MISCELLANY | 1/10/1944 | See Source »

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