Crossword clues for torchy
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a. (context music English) Having the character of a torch song.
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Torchy can refer to:
In entertainment:
- Torchy (comics), a comic strip and comic book by Bill Ward begun in 1944, featuring the heroine Torchy Todd
- the title character of Jackie Ormes' 1938-1939 comic strip Torchy Brown in Dixie to Harlem
- Torchy the Battery Boy, a 1958-1959 puppet television series by Gerry Anderson
- Torchy Blane, a female reporter character in late 1930s films
- Torchy, a fire-breathing Dimetrodon from the third season of Land of the Lost
- Torchy, a character played by Johnny Hines in a series of film shorts (1920-1922)
- Torchy, a character in a series of short stories by Sewell Ford, played by Ray Cooke in all but one film short in a series (1931-1933)
As a nickname:
- Torchy Atkinson (1909-1990), New Zealand horticultural scientist and scientific administrator
- Torchy Clark, American basketball head coach for the University of Central Florida (1969-1983)
- Roy Hasson (1921-1968), Australian rugby league player of the 1940s
- Judith Krantz (born 1928), American romance novelist
- William Peden (1906-1980), Canadian Hall-of-Fame cyclist
As a surname:
- Paul Torchy, a competitor in the inaugural 1923 24 Hours of Le Mans, the 1925 French Grand Prix and the 1925 Belgian Grand Prix
Torchy is a comic strip and, primarily, a series of comic books featuring the ingenue Torchy Todd, created by the American " good girl art" cartoonist Bill Ward during 1944. The character was ranked 97th of the 2011 Comics Buyer's Guide's "100 Sexiest Women in Comics" list.
Torchy is a 1955 album by jazz singer Carmen McRae arranged by Jack Pleis and Ralph Burns.
Jason Ankeny desrcibed the album as "a lush, potently atmospheric collection of romantic ballads rendered for maximum impact" and that the "...sheer intensity of McRae's vocals render orchestration virtually moot. Few singers have equaled her conviction or her fierce intelligence, and her interpretations of songs like "But Beautiful," "My Future Just Passed," and "We'll Be Together Again" pack a devastating emotional punch."
Usage examples of "torchy".
His neighbor McAlpin had touted the Torchy Bathhouse chain often enough.
So if that Maker was Alvin himself, and he knowed it was, then she must see more in her torchy way.
She cast her torchy sight to the roadhouse, and there found the heartfire of a man in the last moment before death, and he was looking at a woman standing down at the foot of the stairs.
So when it was over and they were supposed to go see Torchy, Junie would not go.
The torchy villagers had stormed the castle, trashed the place, liberated the occupants, buried the dead, comforted the survivors.
Before self-consciousness could kick in, however, the quartet began another slow, torchy number.
The song was a slow, torchy one, and Elvis pulled her into his arms the minute they reached the dance floor.