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Word: foghorn (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...season's gayest comedies, Pat and Mike benefits by George Cukor's shrewd direction, the sprightly lines of Authors Ruth Gordon and Garson Kanin, and the comic capering of Old Hands Hepburn and Tracy. Aldo Ray is amusing as a dumb boxer with a foghorn voice. There is a pungent gallery of prognathous fictional sports characters, while such real sports personalities as Babe Didrikson Zaharias, Gussie Moran, Donald Budge, Alice Marble, Frank Parker and Betty Hicks show up in person...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Jun. 16, 1952 | 6/16/1952 | See Source »

...fine production like "Kiss Me Kate" it is regrettable to have a weak performer in one of the main roles. Marilyn Day's voice has a certain foghorn quality that doesn't fit a love song, and, strangely enough, doesn't even lend itself to the more raucous "Always True to You in My Fashion...

Author: By Malcolm D. Rivkin, | Title: The Playgoer | 9/28/1951 | See Source »

...spacetime, and H. L. Mencken on Americanism; Shaw wrote on socialism, Trotsky on Lenin. But Editor Yust sometimes travels far from the world of doctorates and Nobel Prizes. For his expert on nightclubs, he picked the Stork Club's Sherman Billingsley; for boxing, Gene Tunney; for rodeo, Cowboy "Foghorn" Clancy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: From A to Zygote | 1/15/1951 | See Source »

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