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Word: swooned (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...kind, and then it might not. Because too many people get the idea that it's got to be smooth to be good, that you've got to have soft lights and Ray Eberle singing Amapola with a sickly look on his face while all the Pine Manor Promtrotters swoon in droves. If that's what you like then Nick's isn't the place for you, because you'll be saying "Why that's old-fashioned stuff. It's corny, nobody plays that way any more. Give me the Andrews Sisters!" Well, there's a lot of truth that...

Author: By Charies Miller, | Title: SWING | 4/18/1941 | See Source »

...play is neither quite so good as the idea nor so breath-taking as Broadway's swoon over it. Its dream fantasias are much less outlandish than the dreams any psychoanalyst might encounter in a day's work, sometimes lack sparkle, occasionally grow flatulent. But the whole production, spinning from reality to its not too fantastic reveries on four revolving stages, is lovely to look at and delightful to hear. It has one dream of glamorous evening blue, another gilded dream of an Oriental fairy tale, a glittering dream of a circus that turns into a mild nightmare...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cover Story: Gertie the Great | 2/3/1941 | See Source »

Confident that it has a gold mine in Gaston, Chateau Martin has introduced a domestic champagne for him to swoon over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Gaston, the Patriot | 12/30/1940 | See Source »

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