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Word: nightspot (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Under the Chairmanship of Stephen W. Gifford, 3rd '44 the committee has hired Peter Cutler and his orchestra to provide the music. Cutler, who is, at present, playing at a Boston nightspot, has Dot Carroll as his vocalist...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Peter Cutler Will Play For Seniors on May 26 | 5/12/1943 | See Source »

Manhattan's quietly swank Savoy-Plaza Café Lounge was last week doing the biggest business in its history as a nightspot. Its Mondays had begun to look like Saturdays. No opulent floor show was packing in the customers. The attraction was the face and the shyly sultry singing of a milk-chocolate-colored Brooklyn girl, Lena Horne...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Chocolate Cream Chanteuse | 1/4/1943 | See Source »

...completely by Freshmen, the play is directed by Pat Conway and produced by Mary Savage. As you might have guessed the scene is laid in a big city nightspot, in the ladies dressing room, thus...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Radcliffe Freshmen to Play in "Night club" at Agassiz | 11/13/1942 | See Source »

...Cambridge beware and prepare for lean days to come! The serious attitude being adopted toward work, already noted in the Dean's report, will by that time have made Widener the favorite undergraduate nightspot, and the Reading Room will continually be as well populated as it is now before exams. The U.T., McBride's and Dirty Mary's will be things of the past, and the Stag Club will replace its bottles with books. And when the conversation at Mike's Club sounds like a seminar in Paleontology, when Phi Beta Kappa keys are as common as Coop cards, then...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: EXCELSIOR! | 2/5/1941 | See Source »

Into the Manhattan nightspot ("Gay White Way") of his good friend George (Scandals) White marched retired Nightclubman Jimmy Walker, who has lately been setting an example to the clothing industry (of which he is labor mediator) by working an eight-hour day. Supported on either arm by comely club entertainers, he mused: "There was a time when I would have appreciated this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Jan. 27, 1941 | 1/27/1941 | See Source »

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