Word: deeps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...beginning very fat, with no nose whatsoever. That sounds incredible now. I further had, when I was three years old, a deep basso voice with which I frightened people who forgot to look into the baby buggy. I further liked to bite little girls...
Together they set Dona María and the six Chiquitas ringing, sounding the deep-voiced Santa María once every five minutes for a half hour. When the last echoes have died away, Santa María solemnly booms the news that it is 9 o'clock. At 12 noon, 3:30 and 6:30 p.m.-approximately-José repeats the performance. No one ever tries to set his watch by José's bells...
Sometimes one of his Dodgers gets too deep in debate with an umpire, and that calls for Technique No. 3. The trick is to take over the fight. He thrusts out his chin, wags a threatening finger under the ump's nose, and as a final insult kicks sand on the umpire's shoes. Says Durocher: "Sure, I get bounced but my player stays...
...Norway doesn't want her, which is one very good reason for the United States not to take her.") In Seattle, which has the second largest Scandinavian population in the U.S., Impresario Cecilia Schultz said, "I positively refused to ... present her in concert here, because I have a deep-rooted allegiance for the American principles that this woman has ignored...
...feels as if he should be compelled by all this display to know something; is all this some esoteric concert, some tragic sequence?" This passage sums up the reader's feelings perfectly. After wading through a series of nauseating images such as a basement where "guts ran knee deep," and after watching a woman 'who likes to be beaten up in bed and two men who achieve this for her wander through a section of their mutually depraved lives, the reader does not know if he has read a parody or a psychological study. If parody, it is not clearly...