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Word: sob (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Sob Singer Johnnie Ray wailed that his arrest at the Boston airport as a common drunk was "all a mistake." His explanation: "I fell asleep at that airport. Pretty soon someone came and woke me up and told me to come with them. I went. I thought they were my managers . . . When I woke up two hours later, I found I wasn't in that plane at all. I was in jail. I was pretty upset...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Sep. 15, 1952 | 9/15/1952 | See Source »

...Boston theater, as he started the second chorus of The Little White Cloud That Cried, Sob Singer Johnnie Ray discovered that the audience of some 4,000 was crying right along with him. Someone had turned loose some tear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: New Horizons | 7/28/1952 | See Source »

...Cincinnati, Sob Singer Johnnie (Cry!) Ray, 25, confirmed the worst for his bobby-sox fans: he plans to marry Marilyn Morrison, 22-year-old daughter of a Hollywood nightclub owner. Explained Johnnie: "She's the first girl who ever made me feel like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Personal Preferences | 5/26/1952 | See Source »

Sarah Lawrence tutors are unexplicably termed "dons", a strange name since the college bears no other resemblance to Oxford. The don tutors his tutees, discusses general problems of study and educational goals, and, in addition, often provides a shoulder on which a girl can sob out all troubles concerning the men in her life. Besides the papers or "contracts" that the student delivers to her adviser on subjects of her own choosing, the don student relationship is a very informal one. Most of Sarah Lawrence education is centered on these advisers, who include the whole faculty. Students take only three...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sarah Lawrence -- A Dynamic Formula | 4/17/1952 | See Source »

...happy and your eyes are always dry, Don't you know that it's the style to sob and sigh, Singers do it, crowds do it, even little white clouds do it. You, too, can be unhappy if you taaaa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: It's the Style | 3/31/1952 | See Source »

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