Word: lown
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Lown v. Vallee. One Bert Lown, jazz orchestra manager, sued Hubert Prior ("Rudy") Vallee, idolized radio love-singer, for breaking a 50-50 partnership Lown says they had. Lown said he started Vallee on Broadway ,and "trained him to put a certain sob-like tone in his voice which . . . has proved one of the main sources of his present singing popularity." Replied Sobber Vallee: "The suit is too preposterous to discuss...
...down upon each other, mainly because neither knows much about the other. Since I have been at Harvard I have been forced to change my personal ideas about eastern football, and my former ideas are the popular ones in mid-western institutions. Most of my friends here similarly look lown upon western football...