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Word: swoon (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1950
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...down as "The Voice" are missing the point, wrote Sunday Timesman Harold Hobson. It is not The Voice, but "The Smile, that does such enormous, such legendary execution ... the shy, deprecating smile, with the quiver at the corner of the mouth, that makes the young ladies in the gallery swoon in ecstasy, and the maturer matrons in the dress circle gurgle with protective delight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Whimpering In the Dark? | 7/31/1950 | See Source »

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