Word: tuckered
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...purpose to go into detail or to explain motives but in reference to the so-called dispute with a Washington correspondent, Mr. Ray Tucker of the New York York Evening Post [now with Scripps-Howard chain papers] made a statement that I was a disgruntled ex-British Naval Officer. I informed Mr. Tucker that I was not British but had served in the U. S. Navy both during the Spanish War and, according to my resignation signed by Josephus Daniels, in the last War which shows that I gave to the United States Government and Great Britain the free...
...Shearer. He was in his early 40's. His voice was the voice of a 16-in. gun booming arguments and demands for more ships. Well-heeled, he was a generous entertainer. Quick of temper, he once threatened to "knock the hell" out of a Washington correspondent (Ray Tucker) who dared dispute his word. Quickly he was recognized as the most potent Big-Navy lobbyist in Washington. Whom or what he represented remained a mystery...
Honky Tonk (Warner). Alone on a vaudeville stage with a piano, Sophie Tucker is impressive. Although she sings with all the traditional embellishments of the three-a-day, her strong voice somehow manages to make trashy melodies sound like folk-songs. She makes even more noise than usual in this picture but without the effect she gets when she is closer to her audience. She is handicapped by her role as a night-club hostess, by bad songs, by a ridiculous story about her priggish daughter's love-affair with a bibulous millionaire. Long before the rich young...
...Sophie Tucker used to be a waitress in the dining room of her father's hotel in Hartford, Conn. She was a fat, jolly girl, and the patrons of the Tucker House, many of them show people, told her she ought to go on the stage. They made fun of her deep, mournful voice, telling her they liked the way she sang. One night she ran away from home leaving a letter informing her father that she would never come back until she was famous. She plugged black-face songs in movie houses until...
...been a headliner in vaudeville since 1910. She sang at Reisenvveber's in Manhattan, where a dining room was called The Sophie Tucker Room. The Prince of Wales and the Duke of York made friends with her when she sang at the Kit Kat Club in London...