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Word: ladyhood (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...finest composers and singers of Negro music in the U.S. is the wife of a Lynchburg, Va. overall manufacturer. Smoky-eyed Lucile Barrow Turner is the poised, ingratiating, slightly helpless-seeming epitome of Southern ladyhood. But when she cuts loose on a blues or a "shoutin' " spiritual, she gives the effect of a New Orleans barrelhouse contralto...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Lucile Turner's Blues | 6/28/1943 | See Source »

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