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Word: listened (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...atmosphere, though in the Libby Holman records. It's just a guitar that accompanies the Moanin' Low Voice, and the music is very simple and, yes, sincerely done. It is the sort of thing that he who doesn't generally appreciate jazz will find easy and satisfying to listen to, and I suppose this album will make the blues fashionable among what's left of the carriage trade that used to love Libby...

Author: By Harry Munroe, | Title: SWING | 5/18/1942 | See Source »

...seventh birthday morning last week, Iraq's dark-skinned child King Feisal was told to listen hard to the radio. What he heard sent him tearing to the roof of his Bagdad Palace. There, in a stork's nest on a chimney, he found what the radio message from London had told him about -a model Hurricane fighter, exact down to rubber tires and glass navigation and landing lights, built for His Majesty by R.A.F. mechanics. On the fuselage was a brass plate bearing birthday greetings. On the engine cowling His Majesty's name was inscribed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IRAQ: In the Stork's Nest | 5/11/1942 | See Source »

...conglomeration of the theatrical world. The songstress will do several numbers in her well-known "Bicycle Built for Two" style. Later in the evening the Jones Brothers will supply contrast to this gay nineties revival with a jam session for those who like to stomp and shout while they listen...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SMOKER FEATURES BEER AND LAUGHS | 5/6/1942 | See Source »

March 23-". . . Will the American people want to listen to reason and terminate a war which now no one can win completely, and which Americans can lose completely...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Crackdown on Coughlin | 4/27/1942 | See Source »

...about time that lovers of hot music had a chance to listen to it in comfortable seats, without getting sinus trouble, and free from the compulsion to get junky with cut whiskey at speakeasy prices...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Jazz at 5:30 | 4/20/1942 | See Source »

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