Word: swooning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Galloping into the homestretch, Jockey Doug Dodson urged four-year-old Manassas into the lead, held off the final drive of Swoon's Son and flashed across the finish line the 6½-to-1 winner of last week's $125,400 Arlington Handicap on the grass at Arlington Park outside Chicago...
CHICAGO baseball fans, who have hoped in vain for an American League pennant since the "Black Sox" scandal of 1919, have learned to endure an annual disappointment: watching the White Sox get off to a fast start, then fall in a "June Swoon." This year the Sox raced into June as if they really mean to run all the way. One big difference is a scrappy, tobacco-chewing little second baseman named Jacob Nelson Fox. See SPORT, Nellie's Needle...
...found very entertaining, with the possible exception of some small children. He is Eddie Constantine, 38, and he is currently wowing them from the Place de I'Etoile in Paris to the Canebière in Marseille with a hit movie, the latest of several hit records, and swoon-producing personal appearances. He expects to gross $600,000 this year, which is pretty good for a performer who only ten years ago could not have filled the Old Empire Beer Garden in Hoboken, with free beer thrown...
Quite a maudlin piece on Sinatra-written as though a teenager, about to swoon, were writing her thesis on mush...
...whole world was at war, but there in the headlines was The Voice, The Verce, The Larynx, The Tonsil, The Bony Baritone, The Sultan of Swoon-"none other" (as Jimmy Durante expressed it) "than Moonlight Sinatra." Radio comics gnawed ecstatically on the famous skinnybones. "The pipestem Caruso." "He has to pass a place twice before he casts a shadow." "I know the food here is lousy," cracked Phil Silvers as Frank walked onstage in their Army show, "but this is ridiculous...