Word: shore
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...take the present darling, Dinah Shore. She is undoubtedly a far more capable singer than Hutton, especially in projecting her personality through radio and records. In the main, though, hers is a very limited and pedestrian talent compared with even the average swing musician's. Dinah's best interpretations are expressly designed for romance, and she is more than adept. Other times she signs pleasantly, if that well. If you like her, fine. But if you can listen to Benny Goodman, can separate the slag from the gold, and still like Dinah, your standards are inconsistent...
Pure sex-appeal gets tiresome, consequently the enormous turnover of female singers in bands. How many really miss Martha Tilton, Edythe Wright or Connie Haines? And when Dinah Shore gets out of her element and tries to sing "Mississippi Mud," the handwriting is on the wall. Dinah may be able to stave off the ash-can for as long as five years; Hollywood may help. Unless she develops a more positive personality and style, however, she is a goner for sure...
...enough for the 28-ton General Grants. At dusk the light tanks had crept out of the woods and skipped across the oily Cumberland River on the new pontoon bridge. When the mediums came down to cross, puncturing the dark with their exhaust flashes and red signal lights, the shore was lighted for safety's sake, making a 200-yard circle of yellow dust-fog through which turrets poked, each with its pygmy...
Billy Lovett stopped minding his own business after one of his Suwanee Fruit & Steamship Co.'s three freighters (outmoded World War I destroyers which he converted into banana ships) happened upon the stricken La Paz, towed her toward shore. A mile and a half off Cocoa, Fla. she sank in the mud and Government engineers despaired of salvaging her. But Lovett, with a $500,000 salvage claim against her owner, decided to heed the call of "patriotism and profit." At the U.S. marshal's sale, he bought her (for $10,000), set out to float her again...
...year-old spinster (she was born lacking a sense of taste or smell; became deaf in childhood) first saw "the dim shore" of her destination as "a long line of the New Jersey coast, with distinguishable trees and white houses." "I was taken by surprise," she wrote, "by my own emotions. All that I had heard of the Pilgrim Fathers, of the old colonial days, of the great men of the Revolution, and of the busy, prosperous succeeding days stirred up my mind...