Word: minstrell
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...bobby-soxers shrieked, old-timers joyously acclaimed a return to the golden days of vaudeville and theatre manager James Tibbets rubbed his hands in delight over his new minstrel discovery. "Jolson would be proud of that boy," he enthused. "He's one of the best singers I've heard in years...
...came Soap Tycoon F. A. Allen. Sang Allen, to the tune of A Wandering Minstrel...
...thousand dollars. Of the 316 films made in Hollywood in 1944, 83, or 26%, were Westerns. Aside from the class Western, the only notable development during the past 40 years has been the singing Western, which came into being purely as an expedient when Gene Autry, a cowboy minstrel on a Chicago radio station, came to Hollywood in the early '303. Gene had been bought for his radio following; it was clear that he had to keep on singing. It was also clear that a man can't very well burst into song with both guns smoking...
...Laski, British Labor's international problem child, got hit by another spitball, but went right on reciting. Conservative M.P. Cyril Osborne urged Parliament to send beefy Ernest Bevin to the U.S. to offset waspish Laski's influence. Declared Osborne: let the Government "keep some of their wandering minstrels from the London School of Economics at home." Minstrel Laski's proposal of the week: let the U.S. relax international tension right now by destroying its atomic bomb stockpile...
...mind you. I had a route-I didn't stand on a corner prostituting my art." As a boy he did flip-flops with Paul McCullough in the backyard. The two practiced acrobatics, soon got jobs on the small time. For 30 years they appeared in tent shows, minstrel shows, circuses, burlesque, vaudeville, the Ziegfeld Follies...