Word: moaner
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Manhattan's biggest bookshops, a salesman gestured cynically toward his Christmas customers. "Give them a fat historical novel and they'll trample every good book in the place to get to it." It was a familiar moan in the book business-even when the moaner had to raise his voice to be heard above his booming cash register. Yet as a summary for 1949 the judgment was too jaundiced. It was true that popular puddings were as plentiful as usual, with old practitioners like Frank Yerby, Marguerite Steen and F. van Wyck Mason tirelessly serving them...
...girl attendants"), and comes down hard on today's substitutes. Writing of the early 20th Century movies, he observes that "the cinematograph was then in its infancy. It has stayed there ever since." He bitterly regrets the day "the male and female crooner, or moaner, began to trouble the night air. . . . 'Craziness' in entertainment . . . is still the general note today. Nothing must mean anything-a reflection, no doubt, of the general life of this age. Bat's wings, bat's eyes, and bat's brains...
...Chronic moaner Earl ("Red") Blaik, Army's coach, moaned: "We're woefully short on backfield material"-which was one way of saying that his line was tremendous. And it was true that he had only a dozen backs. But that might suffice, since two of the twelve, Felix ("Doc") Blanchard and Glenn Davis, form football's deadliest one-two punch of the century...
...master of a schooner carrying war cargoes. Ace Wagnerian Soprano Helen Traubel, St. Louis baseball fan, was ordered by her operatic coach to stay away from all the World Series games to keep her from ruining her voice by cheering. For the first time in a blue moon Blues Moaner Libby Holman is slated to sing in a Manhattan nightclub-ten years after the fatal shooting of her tobacco-rich husband Zachary Smith Reynolds. Again from Berlin came news that a dancer had found a hot corner in the impressionable heart of Adolf Hitler. Known professionally as La Jana...