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Word: roun (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Flying back to Paducah, Ky., they repaired to Barkley's rambling brick house, "Angles." At the buffet supper that night Barkley stayed close to Mrs. Hadley, grinned when his traveling minstrels serenaded her with St. Louis Blues ("St. Louis woman . . . Pulls that man roun' by her apron strings"). Next day, Mrs. Hadley sat next to him as he dedicated the Paducah airport as Barkley Field...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE VICE-PRESIDENCY: The Merry Widower | 8/22/1949 | See Source »

...Midwestern songs. The foot-tapping Golden Gate Quartet (TIME, Jan. 27), who went to Washington by taxi ($100 round trip), sang Noah and Things Are Gonna Come My Way. Negro Joshua White, who sings at rehearsals with a lighted cigaret behind his ear, sang John Henry, Man Goin' Roun' Takin' Names...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Folk Songs in the White House | 3/3/1941 | See Source »

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