Word: thrush
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bird. But a thrush knew. "No sooner was the coffin grounded, than he was up on the brim of Edna's hat, his beak an inch from a purple cherry. . . ." For if Edna was odd, her hat was odder: the "goodness going up through her hair" had turned the trimmings to real flowers and fruit. The rest of the story reports how Edna earned her ?5 a week by exhibiting her unusual headgear in a publicity splurge that would have made Mother turn over in her grave. By the time she had been eclipsed by a woman...
James F. Byrnes was still the U.S. Senator. He spoke clearly, sharply, now & then emotionally, and usually as if to a gallery. He made a little joke occasionally, flashing his Irish smile and looking around, as pleased as an Irish thrush, when the audience politely laughed...
Born. To Deanna Durbin, 23, thrush from Winnipeg, Manitoba, who flew to Hollywood stardom on wings of song; and Felix Jackson, 43, producer who helped guide her flight: their first child, a daughter. Name: Jessica Louise. Weight...
...postwar record world is coming in on the wings of an old-fashioned hymn sing. Leading the service is Movie Thrush Jeanette MacDonald with such standbys as Holy City and Nearer, My, God, to Thee (Religious Songs, Victor, 6 sides). Fred Waring's glee club & orchestra harmonizes ten others (Songs of Devotion, Decca, 10 sides). Operatic Tenor Richard Crooks solos the Negro hymns Were You There? and The Trumpeter (Victor, 2 sides). Alfred Wallenstein directs his new command, the Philharmonic Orchestra of Los Angeles, in the Schubert and Bach-Gounod Ave Marias (Decca, 2 sides). For the more secular...