Vallee

She had good taste; discovering the hideous aspect of the country, which is usually known as the Vallee du Diable, she had opened a volume, bound in morocco, which her waiting-woman had placed in her hands.

Samuel Brohl and Company Victor Cherbuliez 1864

It was those people - the men and women trying to survive on the streets - who called Vallee their family and wept for his loss.

All Stories 2011

It was those people - the men and women trying to survive on the streets - who called Vallee their family and wept for his loss.

All Stories 2011

Vallee's battle with alcoholism is not what defined him, according to those who knew him best, but his generosity and gratefulness, according to Roberto Saez, who called Vallee his best friend.

All Stories 2011

Vallee's battle with alcoholism is not what defined him, according to those who knew him best, but his generosity and gratefulness, according to Roberto Saez, who called Vallee his best friend.

All Stories 2011

Crosby and Vallee popularized a new style of singing called “crooning,” which employed the tones of black jazz singers but replaced the bodily sexuality of jazz with a romantic and spiritual eroticism.

A Renegade History of the United States Thaddeus Russell 2010

Whereas Louis Prima chose the black street musicians of New Orleans as his role models, Sinatra idolized the symbols of Caucasian performance of his day: the Protestant Anglo-Saxons Bing Crosby, a descendant of Mayflower pilgrims who grew up in Washington State, and Rudy Vallee, native of Maine and Yale graduate whose first band was called “the Connecticut Yankees.”

A Renegade History of the United States Thaddeus Russell 2010

Rudy Vallee's performance in both the original-cast and the film version remains indelibly memorable, but Mr. Larroquette, though he really can't sing, is still charming.

Lovable, Huggable, And Unscrupulous Too Terry Teachout 2011

"It's a big deal," says Skip Vallee , chairman and chief executive officer of R.L. Vallee Inc., a convenience-store chain with 60 locations in Vermont, New Hampshire and New York.

As Wages Rise, Tough Choices Sarah E. Needleman 2011

Just as his version of the sonata told a more coherent story than Watts's, Kissin evoked the death knell, booming drums and roaring cannon of a funeral tribute to Hungarian patriots in "Funerailles" and the restless peregrination of Senancour's hero in the "Vallee d'Obermann."

Pianists Andre Watts and Evgeny Kissin offer Liszt recitals 2011