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Word: songstress (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...leave his bed for a few minutes each day, listened to symphonies on the radio....Massive Hendrik Willem van Loon (The Story of Mankind) went to work for the Government, boosting defense bonds....Shakespearean Maurice Evans became a full-fledged American citizen....A daughter was born to Radio Songstress Benay Venuta and Armand S. Deutsch....James Aloysius Farley, 53, celebrated his birthday at a Giants-Dodgers ball game: the Dionne Quintuplets, 7, celebrated at home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jun. 9, 1941 | 6/9/1941 | See Source »

Bobby Byrne's orchestra, which gained national fame when it broke Glenn Miller's attendance record at Glenn Island, will swing out from 10 to 8 o'clock. Vocal side of the musical entertainment will feature Dinah Shore and Byrne's songstress, Dorothy Claire...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: JUBILEE WILL HIGHLIGHT BIG 1944 WEEKEND | 5/23/1941 | See Source »

Personable Bob Crosby looks like his brother, talks like him, resembles him no further. Singer Ruth Terry (Alexander's Ragtime Band] reveals that she has not forgotten how to sell a song; Songstress Gertrude Niesen is scarcely given a chance to. Silly shot: Comedian Eddie Foy Jr. giving commands to his platoon in such a singsong voice that the platoon breaks into a conga...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, May 12, 1941 | 5/12/1941 | See Source »

...Look (Joan Merrill; Bluebird). The torch record that is putting nickels into the nation's juke boxes. As a result, choke-making Songstress Merrill is looking toward Hollywood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Popular, Mar. 17, 1941 | 3/17/1941 | See Source »

...come and go, but Dietrich will star forever. Her latest, "The Seven Sinners," is a cinema "Panama Hattie" with a Malayan locale, minus the fifth column and Ethel Merman and plus a liberal sprinkling of the Navy. Marlene, just as alluring in the part of a honky-tonk songstress as ever she could have been in her pre-Hitler Berlin musical comedy days, makes up for the loss of Ethel...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MOVIEGOER | 11/14/1940 | See Source »

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