Word: limpness
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...better than they really were. Younger singers could take pointers from the confident way she wrapped her voice around such oldies as Get Happy, Embraceable You and I've Got You Under My Skin. Not only could she get around a nightclub floor without a trace of a limp, she was spending her spare time on the golf course, trying to regain her low-80s game...
Moffie last night wished the '50 team well in this afternoon's opener against Columbia. A star against Yale two years ago, he sequired a limp in the Stanford game last year that left him on the injured list for most of the season...
...hottest days of the summer, a parade of about 5,000-military and naval units, city employees, policemen, firemen and seven bands under limp silk flags-marched up Broadway. In front of City Hall, party bosses, military commanders, the consuls of some 50 foreign nations, City Council President Vincent Impellitteri, the mayor's pretty wife in an aqua velveteen hat, and Bill O'Dwyer arrayed themselves on a hastily constructed platform. Seven policemen and an octogenarian deputy fire commissioner collapsed in the heat. O'Dwyer presented Grover Whalen with a $450 gold medal for "extraordinary public service...
...page, Phoenix' Arizona Republic (circ. 63,016) printed this affecting letter from "just a little boy," supposedly in Miami, Ariz. The morning paper gravely explained that it was breaking its rule against publishing unsigned letters because "this little plea, scrawled and misspelled in pencil on a bit of limp paper, defies routine handling...
...World on a String (Ella Fitzgerald; Decca). Not so poignant as Mildred Bailey's classic recording, but even this one proves that the Harold Arlen song is still head & shoulders above most of today's limp romantic ballads...