Word: fizz
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...young nightclub comics were feeling desperate. They had been on for ten minutes and it was still so quiet you could hear a gin fizz. The manager was waiting grimly at stageside to fire them. Suddenly they strode to a ringside table, snatched up some dishware and smashed it on the floor. The audience gasped, then shouted with laughter...
...Fizz Peach...
...aver (TIME, Oct. 7) that Wisbech rhymes with fizz peach. Not so. I've been stationed in the neighborhood [Cambridgeshire, England] for several, months, and can authoritatively state that it is pronounced "whiz bitch." What's the matter, do you think bitch is a nasty word...
...some 16 years rotund, toothless George Herbert Naylor has worked for a wholesale grocer firm in Wisbech (rhymes with fizz peach), Cambridgeshire. For almost every one of those years his plump wife Lillian has borne him a child. George's wages are ?4 10s.. a week. His eldest daughters Marian (18) and Hazel (17) bring home some ?3 between them from jobs at local shops...
...program was started and is owned by the Masquers Club, whose members are Hollywood stars. Campbell Soup pays them $15,000 a week. Much of the credit goes to Writers Jerome Lawrence, 30, and Robert E. Lee, 27, both from Armed Forces Radio and full of fizz and vinegar. Lee and Lawrence have faithfully heeded some 5,000-a-week listeners' requests, personally answered impossible pleas such as finding apartments or proposing marriage...