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Word: maye (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Picture in your mind's ear the mayhem that a lusty soprano of the oldtime concert stage can commit on that poignant last line of Kiss Me Again. You may think she has screamed as loudly as human lungs can manage all the way through the chorus, but you're wrong: she still has something special left for a flag finish. Here she goes. (Eyes glare.) 'Keesss...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: How to Croon | 10/9/1939 | See Source »

First treatise on the U. S. art of crooning, Henderson and Palmer's book will cause no Flagstads to sprout. But its canny appraisal of the ins & outs of popular song-singing may well make it the aspiring mike-moaner's Bible. Do you want to make big money singing songs for the U. S. radio and cinema public? Then stay away from highbrow vocal teachers, never mind your high C ("Many girls have made fortunes without ever coming within an octave of it"). Concentrate on naturalness and intimacy. Learn how to act at auditions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: How to Croon | 10/9/1939 | See Source »

...saying, Banker Benson taxied to Seattle's Olympic Hotel for the 65th annual meeting of the American Bankers Association, of which he was president. To 2,500 banker delegates he sermonized: "We are meeting in the shadow of another great war. ... We must be prepared for whatever shocks may come...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BANKING: Small-Town Banker? | 10/9/1939 | See Source »

...Brooklyn, N. Y., Claude Joseph ("Brad") Bradley, cement salesman whose friends recently celebrated his approaching death with a bang-up party (TIME, July 31), still had cancer of the spine, still lived, although Mayo Clinic physicians gave him only a few weeks in May. Said Salesman Bradley, hearty, slightly more hale and still selling plenty of cement: "The old docs tell me I'm getting along swell. For a dead man I'm doing all right...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Oct. 9, 1939 | 10/9/1939 | See Source »

Upon another morrow, if we strive, Our links of life, now broken, may unite, Not each for each but both for all alive Opening the other shutters for more light...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Oct. 9, 1939 | 10/9/1939 | See Source »

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