Word: swoon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...swashbuckling, 50-year-old glamor boy, had more to him than the demagogical charm that caused a swoon ing woman to cry, "We want sons by Perón." More intelligent than his fellow militarists and politicians, he had noted the cracks in Argentina's feudal structure, turned them to his own ends. His method - the Putsch, suppression of civil liberties, apparent social benefits to the under privileged - was fascist. He had stirred up in the Argentine masses both hope and unrest that would not soon be stilled...
Instead, the audience of three or four hundred sat with mouths agape, listening. Mostly the audience was in its thirties: they didn't swoon and scream, like bobby-soxers; they talked about the art of it. Many had the conspiratorial smugness of insiders...
Sinatra, now determined to give his following something besides a swoon, has also gone to work on fellow performers. He has persuaded Comic Danny Kaye, Dancer Gene Kelly and Crooner Bing Crosby to make movie shorts along the same lines. Said he last week: "I have never believed in anything so zealously in all my life...
Frank ("The Voice") Sinatra, whose movie, Step Lively, is making the rounds in unoccupied Europe, caused nary a swoon in Stockholm. One critic reported: "Sinatra's a nice boy . . . but there doesn't seem to be any danger of Sinatra fever...
...mood for the "L.S./M.F.T." (Lucky Strike Means Fine Tobacco) buildup will be more boom-de-ay than swoon-away. For $3,500 (and no piping deductions), Manhattan-based Metropolitan Opera Star Lawrence Tibbett last week began singing his own barrel-chested versions of such popular nifties as Don't Fence...