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Word: wanna (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wanna tell about a club," the old vet said, "ya gotta look at 'em down the middle...

Author: By Herbert S. Meyers, | Title: Pitching Poses Problem to McInnis, But Hitting, Fielding Balance Nine | 4/17/1951 | See Source »

Coming out on the Riviera's big floor, he sang such ballads as / Wanna Be Loved, Wanderin', There's No Tomorrow, stopped the show. His warm, strong baritone, faintly reminiscent of Tony Martin's, still had the natural flow and phrasing which he had developed by singing in a Philadelphia synagogue, and the unsophisticated delivery which "I got," he says, "from helping dad hawk fruits and vegetables from a truck when I was a kid." When the reviews appeared next morning, Fisher was described as "merely wonderful," "a sensational singing voice and style," "terrific...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: In at Last | 9/4/1950 | See Source »

...Gordon Hill Jenkins; its owner was a 40-year-old bandleader, composer and arranger who had moved onto the list of the nation's top ten bestsellers with three of his records at once. All tricked out with sobbing, throbbing violins and choruses of female voices, I Wanna Be Loved, Bewitched and My Foolish Heart were proving once again that the U.S. still likes nothing better than the big, lush arrangements of its popular tunes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Fancy & Flashy | 6/26/1950 | See Source »

...Danny, I just wanna know this, is this a good picture? Why don't ya ever wanna talk about the picture, Danny? They say the picture's good. It says there the picture's great...

Author: By Stephen O. Saxe, | Title: THE MOVIEGOER | 5/6/1950 | See Source »

...right, kid, you asked for it, and here it is. The ads are lying. I'm a liar. The picture stinks. You wanna know why the picture stinks? Because they took a story about a jockey by Ernie Hemingway. It was called "My Old Man," and they decided to make a picture out of it. Sure, sure, they got some good actors for it. They get Micheline Prelle, of the Rive Gauche. And Johnnie Garfield. He's a good actor, Danny. He's a great actor. And Orley Lindgren. They say he's good...

Author: By Stephen O. Saxe, | Title: THE MOVIEGOER | 5/6/1950 | See Source »

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