Word: shean
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Died. Al Shean (real name: Albert Schonberg), 81, apple-cheeked, amiable comic favorite in the oldtime vaudeville team of ("Positively") Mr. Gallagher* & ("Absolutely") Mr. Shean, which wowed audiences in the '20s (they played 67 weeks in the 1923-24 Ziegfeld Follies^ made their 500-odd verses household jingles) ; in Manhattan. A veteran of 60 years in show business, German-born Al Shean first turned to legitimate theater in 1912 (he also made some 20 Hollywood films), scored his biggest Broadway hit 25 years later as the Benedictine monk in Father Malachy's Miracle...
...bittersweet words of Mr. Trimingham and Mr. Trott, a jingle attributed to a U.S. Navyman on duty in expensive Bermuda in World War II (and sung to the tune of Mr. Gallagher and Mr. Shean), were being cheerfully chorused in Bermudian cabarets almost every night last week. In a crowded paradise almost 90% dependent on the money which tourists bring in, merchants and hotelkeepers were collecting their highest prices ever-while U.S. tourist traffic boomed along toward a record season...
There was the time two nattily dressed fellows with cameras showed up early in the evening with a letter "written" and "signed" by President Conant authorizing them to look over Lamont. "I had to check with a half-dozen people before it was proved a fraud," Shean explained...
...couple of students showed me a telegram supposedly from Senator Saltonstall. It identified them as members of a special committee to compare Lamont with the Congressional Library in Washington." Shean states simply that "they didn't make...
...Nobody got in, buddy--but nobody," says Shean to make a long story short