Word: pistol-packin
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...Pistol-Packin' Mama. In the death scene, Stratas shed real tears and made her audience suffer with her as the strings surged upward to a great chord, punctured by Violetta's desperate cry: "Ah! gran' Dio! Morir si giovine [Ah, great God! To die so young]." After the performance, Teresa, smothered in flowers, wearing a green Florentine velvet gown, was seized by a hollow cough. "You see, Violetta is contagious," she said...
Taking one look at the painting of pistol-packin' Betty (Annie Get Your Gun) Hutton on TIME'S April 24 cover, the Communist-licensed Berlin daily Neues Deutschland shrieked that the U.S. had discovered a deadly new weapon: "a warmonger with sex appeal...