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Word: skinnay (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fellow pulled in Washington. He walked into the White House and said he was from Missouri, and before he could holler 'April fool!' he was a Cabinet member." By that time, Hope and his sidekicks-popeyed, siren-throated Jerry Colonna, Brenda and Cobina, and Bandleader Skinnay Ennis-had turned Tuesday into Bob Hope night in the U.S. Every Wednesday morning in those days, the Dow-Jones stock ticker used to carry the best of his jokes. During his ten years as toothpaste salesman, he claims, Pepsodent leapfrogged from No. 6 in sales...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Stars: The Comedian as Hero | 12/22/1967 | See Source »

Died. Edgar Clyde ("Skinnay") Ennis Jr., 55, popular bandleader of the jive-and-jump era, a product of Hal Kemp's offbeat collegiate jazz band at the University of North Carolina in the 1920s (other students: Kay Kyser, John Scott Trotter), who became the big noise nationwide on Bob Hope's radio shows of the 1940s; from choking on a piece of roast beef; in Beverly Hills...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Jun. 14, 1963 | 6/14/1963 | See Source »

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