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Word: merman (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Jimmy Durante, with Ethel Merman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RADIO: Program Preview, Dec. 7, 1953 | 12/7/1953 | See Source »

...rate, Singer Keel (who played in the screen version of Annie Get Your Gun) knows how to saddle up his songs and ride them for all they're worth-which, in this case, is not much. Songstress Day, as Calamity, is clearly aiming at the Ethel Merman manner. But where husky Ethel, with her large-bore bellow, can roar out a song until her throat fairly smokes, dainty Doris is more like a Girl Scout with a shiny new Daisy: she's loaded, but hardly for bear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Nov. 23, 1953 | 11/23/1953 | See Source »

...Ethel Merman and Mary Martin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NATIONAL AFFAIRS,INTERNATIONAL & FOREIGN,SQUALLS IN THE MEDITERRANEAN,OBIT,OTHER EVENTS,SJPEli it OUf: (THIS TEST COVERS THE PERIOD FROM LATE JUNE THROUGH MID-OCTOBER 1953) | 10/26/1953 | See Source »

...Rats in a Tub. Booster Bob built the fair up to Texas-style proportions, too, with everything from prize Herefords and mohair goats to Ethel Merman and Mary Martin. He enlarged the Cotton Bowl, wooed out-of-state industries and raised prodigious amounts of money for the Dallas Symphony.* An effortless worker, he delegates authority freely, but expects his associates to be always on the ready line ("If it's gonna be a do meeting, O.K. If you're gonna run around like rats in a tub, I don't want any part...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CITIES: The Barker | 10/19/1953 | See Source »

Call Me Madam. Ethel Merman sparkplugs a big, bouncy movie version of her Broadway hit musical about a lady ambassador (TIME, March...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: CURRENT & CHOICE, Jul. 27, 1953 | 7/27/1953 | See Source »

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