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Word: rippeth (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...makes it sound like the easiest, as she concocts a wistful chant out of Oscar Levant's Blame It on my Youth, throbs through Limehouse Blues, races with a fine, light lilt through The Springtime Cometh, a take-off an old English madrigal ("Gaily skippeth, nylon rippeth, zipper zippeth, whoop-de-do, which is to say, the springtime cometh"). For Cole Porter's urbane lyrics, her precise, finishing-school inflection provides just the right sophistication...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NIGHTCLUBS: Grimy Tams | 12/29/1958 | See Source »

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