Word: claghorning
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...lies containing partial admissions. Almost with relish, Van Doren testified that he had been foolish, naive, prideful, avaricious. To the hilt, he was the anguished soul torn by struggles of conscience-and when he finished, there was barely a dry eye among the Congressmen. In an outburst of Senator Claghorn sentimentality, most lauded his "fortitude" and "soul searching." After Van Doren thanked the committee and said he hoped that he would not do "that sort of thing again," Chairman Oren Harris said: "I think you have a great future ahead of you. God bless you." Only New York...
This production was not up to the Broadway one. Bert Lahr had a lot of fun as the visitor from outer space, but lacked the polished hauteur that Cyril Ritchard brought to the role. Kenny Delmar (Fred Allen's Senator Claghorn, for those of you with long memories) could have used more of Eddie Mayehoff's bluffness in the part of the none-too-bright general who has trouble with anything bigger than the Army's laundry problems...
...play still stands up surprisingly well the second time through. Bert Lahr has a lot of fun with the part of Kreton, but he makes the visitor a bit too lovable; he lacks the polished hauteur that Cyril Ritchard brought to the role. Kenny Delmar (Fred Allen's Senator Claghorn, for those of you with long memories) could use more of Eddie Mayehoff's bluffness in the part of General Powers, a none-too-bright officer who has trouble with anything bigger than the Army's laundry problems...
...thinning grey hair is worn at ordinary, not Claghorn, length, and he shuns the string tie and the diamond stickpin. Taciturn and humorless, he has neither the gift nor the inclination for the vivid rhetorical attacks on opponents that were the stock in trade of such old masters as South Carolina's Ben Tillman, who won the voters' hearts by announcing his determination to go to Washington and plunge a pitchfork into the rump of President Grover Cleveland. Where Theodore ("The Man") Bilbo embarrassed respectable Southerners with personal peccadilloes, ranging from a particularly messy divorce to brazen bribe...
...Florence Sullivan), 61, radio and TV humorist whose topical, misanthropic wit and acidity reached its peak in the early '40s on the radio show Town Hall Tonight, which included his wife Portland Hoffa and such zany denizens of Allen's Alley as Titus Moody, Mrs. Nussbaum, Senator Claghorn and Ajax Cassidy; of a heart attack while walking his dog near midnight on Manhattan's West 57th Street. Born in Cambridge, Mass., Allen lurched onto the vaudeville boards at 17 as one of the most inept jugglers in history, became a comic after serving in World...