'flu

Perhaps it was merely ’flu delirium that made me think of the same fellow as the hero of the next song, that great maestropiece “Music, maestro, please”—the sort of thing, perhaps, that in old music-hall days would have been allotted to that terrible person the “descriptive vocalist.”

1939 April 11, Betty Carr, “Crooners’ Love”, in Liverpool Daily Post, number 26,128, Liverpool, Lancashire, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 5, column 6