Similar words: hornet, horney, horned, hawthorne, hornet's nest, hornets' nest, horn of plenty, lahore. Meaning: n. United States singer and actress (born in 1917).
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1. Lena Horne also sang at civil rights gatherings.
2. One of her last albums, An Evening with Lena Horne, earned her a Grammy Award for Best Jazz Vocal Performance in 1995.
3. Lena Horne later wrote that the movie producers did not make her into a servant, but they did not make her into anything else either.
4. In 1984, Lena Horne received the Kennedy Center Honors Award for her achievements in the performing arts. Singer Dionne Warwick paid tribute to Lena at the awards ceremony.
5. Lena Horne was presented the Grammy Award for Lifetime Achievement in 1989.
6. That is the Lena Horne biography that could have — should have — been, if Hollywood and America hadn't suffered from a corrosive racial prejudice.
7. BARBARA KLEIN: Lena Horne once said that World War Two helped make her a star.
8. In nineteen forty, Lena Horne became the first African-American to travel and perform with an all-white jazz band.
9. Lena Horne once said she felt a need to act distant on stage to protect herself.
10. Singer Lena Horne, who broke racial barriers as a Hollywood and Broadway star famed for her velvety rendition of "Stormy Weather(sentencedict.com), " has died at age 92.
11. In the nineteen forties, Lena Horne was the first African-American in Hollywood to sign a long-term contract with a major movie studio.
12. Lena Horne said that she was able to make movies because she was the kind of black person that white people could accept.
13. All the radios were tuned into the number one song Stormy Weather, by Lena Horne.
14. Glamorous studio shots of film actresses Dorothy Dandridge and Lena Horne, for example, make it clear that African-American women were every bit as alluring as their white counterparts.
15. After an hour-long service of words both sacred and nostalgic and of course, music, the world finally said goodbye to the legendary Lena Horne.
16. Peter Claver, which still exists and counts among graduates of its parochial school the singer and rights activist Lena Horne.
17. During this period, African-American actors were mostly limited to playing servants or African natives. Lena Horne refused to play roles that represented African-Americans disrespectfully.
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