Word: bawl
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Tears & Champagne. When the U.S. went to war, Lucy gave expensive going-away parties for the sons of prominent families, served the best of champagne. When an Oxnard boy was killed in action, Lucy would visit the bereaved family and bawl like a cow with a thistle in its throat. When President Roosevelt died, Oxnard newspapers carried a paragraph of solemn comment from Lucy as well as from churchmen and other civic leaders...
...There are some rough, funny scenes in A Royal Scandal, especially a long, toast-quaffing, glass-smashing seduction scene between the Empress and the most faithful and willing of subjects. But too much of the humor depends, typically, on your capacity for being amused at hearing an anointed monarch bawl "Shut up"-which is good for one smile, or perhaps two, but begins, after a few reels, to lose its bouquet...
...enjoyable musicomedy book, 26-year-old Composer Bernstein (who got a royal bawling out from Serge Koussevitsky for trafficking with Broadway) has matched a lively score. There is a modern beat to his ballet music, but such songs as Lonely Town and Lucky To Be Me are as torchy as the next fellow's, and such ditties as Come Up To My Place and You Got Me are straight Main Stem-and with delightfully tough Nancy Walker to bawl them out, they are showstoppers as well. Jerome Robbin's dances have humor and verve, and charming Sono Osato...
...point at me," Barrymore told a Hollywood producer (an ex-tailor) who started to bawl him out: "I remember that finger when it had a thimble...
...lesser degree, does George Price. He lives in an old 18th-Century Bergen County Dutch house in Tenafly, N.J., which he has filled to the eaves with U.S. antiques, some of them of very dubious authenticity. There, in an attic studio, surrounded by three stripling sons who alternately bawl, play the clarinet and scatter the floor with toy electric train tracks, he works methodically with a crow quill pen because it produces a large variety of thin and thick lines...