Word: deadpan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ordered a voice vote on Vaughn's report. Although it had been agreed in committee not to have a roll call, Northern delegates shouted into their floor microphones, demanding one. But they could not be heard. The floor mikes were dead. Chairman Barkley asked for ayes and nays. Deadpan, he listened to the response and ruled that the majority report had carried. The Mississippi delegation was accredited...
They had no trouble talking Florida's florid Senator Claude Pepper into being their candidate. Deadpan Claude Pepper, onetime champion of Russia, onetime apologist for Henry Wallace, onetime defender of Harry Truman against the Dixie rebels, and the last drummer in the Eisenhower parade, made the most of the spotlight. He strode into the abandoned Eisenhower headquarters, bussed his wife at the cameramen's request and proclaimed that he would "accept the draft." Said Claude Pepper: "This is no time for politics as usual...
...sounded like they were always tuning up." And the critics gave the First a glacial reception. Said the Daily Herald: "Except at the dentist's, I don't remember a longer 35 minutes." The Times, which didn't like it at all, summed up in deadpan fashion: "It contained some loud and soft, quick and slow sounds." The Daily Mail's advice: "the cobbler should stick to his last...
Many a skipper set out. for Dunkirk with just "a series of courses penciled on the back of an envelope" and no notion of the holocaust that awaited him (personnel-ship Scotia passed a returning destroyer in mid-Channel, received from her merely the deadpan warning: "Windy off No. 6 buoy"). Tug Sun XI found herself ferrying to & fro for seven days, "like a sardine tin full up everywhere." Skipper Lightoller packed troops into his yacht Sundowner until, in his own expressive words, "I could feel her getting distinctly tender, so took no more...
...audiences have packed Albert Hall nine times this season to hear Pianist Eileen Joyce. One thing they like about her is her showmanship. Tall, green-eyed Pianist Joyce makes the most of her looks by frequent changes of dress and hairdo between numbers ("Sequins for Debussy," she once explained deadpan to a reporter, "red and gold for Schumann; hair up for Beethoven, down for Grieg...