Word: mercerize
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...singing, and on the subject of music, Sinatra could write a book. He was generous to his singing contemporaries, maybe because he knew he had no serious rival, but probably too out of a genuine respect for musicianship. He would speak fondly and knowledgeably of Billie Holiday, Mabel Mercer, Tony Bennett. And if he heard you had an ear and were ready to lend one, and if the mood was right and there was a bottle of Scotch in the neighborhood, he could talk about music far into the night. "A Johnny Mercer lyric," he said once, casually...
...talking about is not drug dealers. I mean people who work for cash in order to get by. They hold jobs as lawn keepers, baby sitters, handymen, caregivers and so forth, and depend on payment in cash. I smell a political revolution in the making. RENEE PEARCE Mercer...
...future generation, an expression so tangible that even an age so obsessed with material things as our own might understand it, just as the disciple Thomas was allowed to touch the wounds of our Lord with his own hands in order to believe and have faith. DANIEL MERCER Pennsauken...
...fourth-floor rehearsal room at Manhattan's City Center, the cast of St. Louis Woman has gathered to run through the first act of the 1946 Harold Arlen-Johnny Mercer musical. "Lord knows what happens next!" bellows Chuck Cooper, a Tony Award-winning actor from The Life. What happens next is a little theater magic. Vanessa Williams enters, slithers onto a straight-backed chair and sings Any Place I Hang My Hat Is Home. This tune is a taunt, a turf marking and a declaration of sexual independence in 32 bars. And with Williams, a young star of CDs, movies...
...years after her marriage, and after bearing six children, Eleanor resumed the search for her identity. The voyage began with a shock: the discovery in 1918 of love letters revealing that Franklin was involved with Lucy Mercer. "The bottom dropped out of my own particular world," she later said. "I faced myself, my surroundings, my world, honestly for the first time." There was talk of divorce, but when Franklin promised never to see Lucy again, the marriage continued. For Eleanor a new path had opened, a possibility of standing apart from Franklin. No longer would she define herself solely...