Search Details

Word: singerly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...grand, would be to project the power and punch Composer Britten has packed into his Peter Grimes. One top Met official admitted: "If it flops, it'll be our fault." The Met, like most conservative opera houses, still stages its operas like any smalltime Italian company, with every singer's steps and gestures stylized, so that a substitute can step into any role on a moment's notice. The stylizing makes for convenience, but hot for conviction...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Opera's New Face | 2/16/1948 | See Source »

Although handy with a megaphone, Ozzie was never a great singer. So he hired Harriet Hilliard to share the bandstand spotlight. Harriet couldn't sing much better than Ozzie, but she was considerably prettier. Together they improvised a "talky-type song-a "back & forth, boy & girl" exchange that the customers loved. They were married...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: The Full Nelson | 2/16/1948 | See Source »

Uncovered in the official gridiron rules book, the shift occured after the singer's publicized remark that "All over the country men are wolves; only in Boston do they behave like lambs...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Gridiron Stars Complete Passes in Unorthodox Post-Season Workouts | 2/2/1948 | See Source »

After a few weather reports and records, CBS also got under way at 8 with a B-minus, hour-long movie (a boy photographer clicks with a big-city newspaper and a big-city girl). Du Mont continued with Singer Sylvie St. Claire, who relaxed on a sofa with a telephone and urged a melancholy baby to come to her. At 8:15., Du Mont offered a poor full-length movie-almost the only type that jealous Hollywood will allow its suspected rival...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: A Day with Television | 1/19/1948 | See Source »

Born. To Dinah Shore, 30, dark-eyed scorch-singer, and George Montgomery, 31, cow-puncher-turned-cinemactor: their first child, a daughter; in Los Angeles. Name: Melissa Ann. Weight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jan. 12, 1948 | 1/12/1948 | See Source »

Previous | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 | 31 | 32 | 33 | 34 | 35 | Next