Word: worded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Errol Flynn said he was taking his wife on a yachting trip to Latin America and France, refused to confirm or deny word of another Flynn enterprise: investment in a corset-&-brassiere business. His statement: "What-are they still wearing them...
Many of the people who crowded into Manhattan's red candy-striped Embassy Club, where it costs $2.50 for a hamburger, didn't understand a word he sang. But the Sinatra of France, handsome, flaxen-haired Charles Trenet, was a big hit, regardless. In the audience, and clapping hard, were such diverse celebrities as Lana Turner and Leon Henderson. The language of mugging, strutting and rolling the eyes was universal, as Maurice Chevalier discovered before him. After four encores. Fiance's No. i crooner bubbled in French: "In France they understand what I sing. Here they understand...
...song's end, agile little Dr. Mildon jumped on the nearest bar stool. "Now," said he in a penetrating, high-pitched voice, "I want you to sing a song we find you people of Plymouth know very well-Abide with Me." The two chars sang every word without missing a note, sipping occasionally the while...
...bird's initial appearance was at the Colonial Theatre, where, after a brief word of explanation to the baffled audience as to the nature of the Ibis and the Harvard Lampoon, Blackstone produced the mounted creature from an empty box. The magician's call for photographers indicated that the press had been tipped off to the event...
...mature critics have called "Sole in Tom-Toms" wonderful. That's the word at least two of them have used--wonderful. What it contains is a collection of back-century anecdotes from the days of Buffalo Bill, Jack Dempsey, and Paul Whiteman, homely philosophy, and innumerable references to unimportant and only occasionally interesting friends and relatives of the author. It is full of phrases like this one: "I have never again heard from the crudite tea-taster, and what became of him I do not know. The busy years find us neglectful of those wise counselors who influenced our early...