Word: belchere
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...anecdote that seems mostly for guffaws but actually tells a lot about the people who are center stage in our times. So Richard Burton recalls, for the cover story in SHOW BUSINESS, how his wife and Sandy Dennis used to engage in belching contests. "Elizabeth is also a good belcher," said her husband, "so they had competitions, but Sandy nearly always won for number and volume...
...Nitty Belcher. At that point, shrewd old Jack Warner, sensing that Dennis was "going to be a very big star," foxed the trade by gambling on her in his $6,000,000 adaptation of the bile-black comedy Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Director Mike Nichols was frankly worried about Dennis' reputation for being obstreperous, but happily found her "just about the easiest actress to work with that I have ever met." And her co-stars agreed...
...GARY D. BELCHER...
...Then arose Asa, the Scribe, and went unto Belcher, the Ruler, and said, 'behold, our butter stinketh, we cannot eat thereof: now, give us, we pray thee, butter that stinketh...
...Belcher the Ruler said, 'trouble me not, but be gone unto thine own place;' but Asa obeyed...