Word: songstress
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hard-won vocal habits, learned to bleat so expensively that half a dozen of her consonants will now pay for all the singing lessons she ever took. At 25, she has developed as tricky a style and as tony a claque as any of those quick bright things called "songstresses." Last week Songstress Knight had clinched her success by beginning (at $2,000 a week) her biggest radio series, as Tony Martin's opposite attraction on his new Texaco show...
Married. Maria do Carmo da Cunha (Carmen Miranda), 33, turbaned Brazilian cinema songstress; and David Sebastian, 38, film producer; both for the first time; in Los Angeles...
Ford Show (Wed. 9:30 p.m., CBS). Songstress Dinah Shore, Comic Peter Lind Hayes and, of late weeks, a much-improved script...
...Peace's membership rolls there was plenty of window dressing with such innocent names as Songstress Lily Pons and Author Henry Seidel Canby. But there were also the names of New York's Communist Councilmen Peter V. Cacchione and Ben Davis, Manhattan's Party-line Congressman Vito Marcantonio, Daily Worker Columnist Frederick V. Field. Communist-dominated unions were heavily represented...
...must be very frank and say, I was glad when Sir Hollis went away"). His Stone Cold Dead describes a murder in Port-of-Spain's Grass Market in 1939. He recorded it himself in 1939 (as He Had It Coming) but it got no popularity until Songstress Fitzgerald unearthed it this spring. Other Houdini songs have had such innocuous themes as I Like Bananas Because They Have No Bones and Roosevelt Opens World's Fair. The time King George ate hot dogs with the Roosevelts at Hyde Park moved him to this song...