Word: exclaimer
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...shopkeepers sit hunched on their heels, willing to haggle, but apparently unconcerned about customers. The crowds drift past, slowly, pausing to talk and exclaim and now & then to ask a price. Their money, peeled with deliberation from well-thumbed rolls, or dredged from purses hauled from women's skirt bands, goes mostly to the shopkeepers behind the great shallow straw baskets of grain...
...former, then we can only turn for comfort to the shining lessons of the great stoic, "O tempora, O mores!" If the latter--remembering that this outrage occurs day after day and at reduced rates--we must join the great Orator in his righteous outburst of indignation and exclaim, "Quousque tandem, Catilina, abutere patientia nostra...
...only centaurs but ordinary human beings often stopped in their tracks at the sight of Irish Poet James Stephens. The doe-eyed little (5 ft.) man with the high, fringed dome and the long, lugubrious stage Irishman's face had moved Critic Burton Rascoe to exclaim: "Never have I seen a man ... so easy, free and natural, so untamed by society, so untouched by conventions, so spontaneous, pagan, joyous." Stephens reminded Rascoe of the leprechauns, the gnomelike creatures the poet had written about in The Crock of Gold, along with the god Pan, philosophers, children, wives, cops, fairies...
Though most of Louisa's arch humor misfires, seasoned Actors Gwenn and Coburn get some entertaining slapstick into their schoolboy posturings. Ronald Reagan and Ruth Hussey have little to do except exclaim about the way grandma is carrying on. As the daughter of the family, involved in a dreary little romance of her own, Piper Laurie plays a 17-year-old who seems to have matured every way except mentally...
...exhibition at Paris' Maeght Gallery last week was the kind that provokes many a parent to exclaim: "My kid could do better than that...