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Word: songster (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...typical, as would be the story of a black Southerner consciously striving Northward toward freedom. As a Westerner, blind at first to the burden of his own color, Author Gordon dreamed of the East where he would be a brown, pagan tycoon. He won the East and more as songster, not tycoon. Still pagan, he says: "There are only two things I worship in life, a dollar bill and a pretty girl...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Highbrown Highbrow | 11/11/1929 | See Source »

Married. Richard Harold Saxon Tudor Bold, songster of Earl Carroll's Vanities, great-grandson of Ralph Waldo Emerson, descendant of English Kings (Harold the Saxon, Richard the Bold); and Rae Gardner, Colonial scioness, of Albany, N. Y.; in Greenwich, Conn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Jan. 7, 1929 | 1/7/1929 | See Source »

FRANK CRUMIT, soulful-songster of comic balads has produced "Bride's Lament" and "Jack is Every Inch a Sailor". The funniest thing about them is that when written, they weren't supposed to be funny...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: RECORDS | 10/17/1928 | See Source »

Married. Al Jolson (Asa Yoelson), famed mammy songster; and Ruby Keeler, tap dancer; in Port Chester...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Oct. 1, 1928 | 10/1/1928 | See Source »

...Singing Fool. Al Jolson, Robert Charles Benchley. George Bernard Shaw are the best the sonucinema has offered so far. This is no happy commentary upon 1) cinemactors; 2) sonucinema. Neither Songster Jolson, Funnyman Benchley...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Oct. 1, 1928 | 10/1/1928 | See Source »

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