Word: throbs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...radio & television shows, Jimmy Durante lowers his voice to a hoarse throb and murmurs, "Good night, Mrs. Calabash, wherever you are." Who Mrs. Calabash may be, nobody knows, and Jimmy won't say. His friends like to believe that his airwave salute to her symbolizes the Durante character: grotesque tenderness beneath the mask of a public clown...
Should this happen, the boss's favored son will inherit a prize air force, built up by a nation that tuned to the throb of an airplane engine almost before it knew the automobile...
Last week there were more signs that Eddie Fisher was in at last. Victor had moved him onto its bigger-selling black label. Outside Broadway's huge Paramount Theater, the bobby-soxers were gathering to throb when their new boy does his stuff (five shows a day for $1,000 a week). With movie, television and nightclub bids rolling in, big-voiced little (130 Ibs.) Eddie Fisher seemed to have his big chance firmly in hand...
...Stars & Stripes. But the sump pumps began to throb. On the floor of the House, Mississippi's old Dixie Demagogue John Rankin (D.), leader of many another Treasury raid in the name of the nation's veterans, led this raid with customary eagerness and cunning. He had wangled the bill out of committee. "Passage will do much to relieve a real need," he declaimed. Members fell over one another rushing to the well to add their voices. Said Massachusetts' motherly Republican Edith Nourse Rogers: to turn the bill down would be "a very cruel thing." Pennsylvania...
...clapboard cottage nine miles southeast of Ottawa, Mrs. Lester Kipp was cooking breakfast one morning last week when something about the throb of a nearby aircraft made her look up at the sky through the kitchen window. She was just in time to see a plane explode in the air over a neighbor's barn, then crash in a great ball of orange flame in a nearby field. "Lester," cried Mrs. Kipp to her husband, "go help the people...