Word: songster
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...look like lambs?" queried the first poster. This eminently polite question was followed by another which brought a slight grin to the songster's face and a minor quaver to her clear, bell-like tones...
Last week the latest listener-polls, as they have for years, put Crosby among the dozen most popular attractions in radio. The entertainment trade-sheet, Variety, considered him front page news. He had been a top-rank songster since the season of 1930-31, when a current pop tune was Crosby, Columbo and Vallee. Other singers have come and gone. Last week Crosby, 41, had never even been away...
...78th Congress flickered to a finish, lame-duck Congressmen seized their last chance. One by one, they took to the floor with prepared valedictories. Most of their colleagues had already gone home, but the Congressional Record was still there, duty-bound to print every last quack. Each swan-songster was convinced that his constituents had been misguided, but magnanimously agreed to abide by the voters' decision. Each also wanted to take a few fast, final pokes at the Soviet Union and the British Empire...
Sugarpuss is a lady who jives by night-a sort of songster-stripteuse in a nightclub. Unable to communicate his plan for syphoning off her jargon, Potts eventually gets his message across after being told to "shove in your clutch, Professor...
Maurice Chevalier, camel-lipped love songster (". . . every little breeze seems to whisper Louise.") sang & danced for French war prisoners in Germany...