Word: swoon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Frank Sinatra's effect on Italians (as reported by Stars and Stripes): in Rome, a group of swoon-aged maidens listened imperviously to a Sinatra record, requested Home on the Range...
...introduced glamour to motion pictures. Starting her career in Hollywood with Mack Sennet and Keystone, her first pictures were the bathing-beauty and cop-chasing comedies of the silent picture era. Soon she was working under Cecil B. DeMille and is said to have caused men to swoon and women to turn chartreuse with envy...
Frank Sinatra,* amateur boxer, bought a $10,000 share in a friend who also makes them swoon: heavyweight Pugilist Tami Mauriello...
...Angeles last week faced the biggest problem of U.S. outdoor-summer-symphony boosters: how to use Frank Sinatra, the King of Swoon, to bolster a sagging summer-symphony budget, while holding one's nose and dignity...
...from records and personal appearances, he's easily the greatest trumpeter to play here regularly. This is no idle statement, for Red Allen, Bill Davison, Max Kaminsky, Bobby Hackett, and Hot Lips Paige are no slouches. You can call it "Soul" and flutter your eyelids. Call it "Inspiration" and swoon. More directly, Newton is closest to the soul of jazz, in his sincerity, strength, tenderness, and disregard for convention...