Word: sob
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...suspended the word in the air, limp and profound. "A vegetable," he repeated. "All I have left is a pocket of pennies, little memory pennies." A sound--almost a sob...
...used her high but lilty voice did her seductive talents poke through. The Hit Parade was back (in stunning color for the 200,000 color-set owners), with a bevy of new performers led by young, moist-eyed Jill Corey, whose vocal renderings come with a lush, built-in sob. On the densely populated show called The Big Record, moonfaced Patti Page was mostly what the late Fred Allen called a Pointer, i.e., someone who points at someone else doing an act and says "Watch him"-the sort of trick that "you could teach a dog to do by smearing...
...Capp at last getting his comeuppance? What did he think of the Saunders-Ernst treatment? Said he: "Unpardonable slander. Something disgraceful, humiliating." Then Capp took his tongue out of his cheek and exposed the feud (sob!) as a hoax. He and Saunders cooked it up last fall in Washington at a meeting of the cartooning clan ("a pretty damn dull profession"). Rapp will go on taking raps for a few weeks until, says Capp, Saunders "casually reveals at the end that I'm not a monster." Confirmed Cartoonist Saunders: "Rapp just follows the public concept of Capp, an egotistical...
CONNIE FRANCIS, born Constance Franconero, who broke into a network show with a kid act when she was four, later graduated to the Catskill Borsch circuit-the Concord, Grossinger's, Brown's Hotel. M-G-M Records liked her throaty, sob-ridden voice, changed her name and signed her up. Her first two singles-Freddy and Didn't I Love You Enough? are currently being followed by a bouncy number, Eighteen, and a sad-toned ballad Faded Orchid, which might go over with what the industry calls the "girdle...
...kind of sob story that most endears Hubble to readers was handed to him not long ago by a housewife who complained that her husband had not spoken to her for ten years-even though she had borne him two children in that time. A Mirror-Pictorial team whisked the couple off to a quiet country inn and spent hours pleading with the husband. The outcome was splashed across the Pictorial's back page. The finale. "Shyly, he turned to his wife and said: 'Hello, love.' Tears of joy filled her eyes. Tenderly he took her hand...