Word: yodeler
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...short period last year, the whistler took up yodeling instead of his usual acts, but received what was probably the surprise of his life when Nancy Burns '50 yodeled right back at him from the other end of the line. He has not been known to yodel since...
...conducted by the composer and sung enthusiastically, if not distinctly, by the two Glee Clubs. After the intermission, the Yale group did a moving interpretation of the cowboy song "Old Paint," but they waited till their "Deitsch Company," an old drinking song, to bring down the house. The double yodel featured here was at once carefree and harmonious, and the Harvard group, a more Glee Club, suffered by comparison. But the lack was soon covered by their frolicsome rendition of "Gently, Johnny," sung with a lightness that seemed impossible from so large a group...
...bille, a confirmed jitterbug, has written an intimatist novel, La Commandante, which sold 10,000 copies in less than three weeks, and an intimatist poem called The Bikini Yodel...
Soldiers from New Glarus who visited Switzerland during World War II came home with some startling news: nobody seemed to yodel there any more. They also told their elders that the Swiss had been astonished by their talk; in 1946 New Glarus was still using phrases almost as dated as Elizabethan English...