Word: groaning
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...other muffs that caused the crowd to groan in embarrassment were not Lynch's fault. There is more to the kicking game than meets...
Even more unintelligible was the background chorus of calculated coughs, groans and mumbles, punctuated by occasional cries of "Hear! hear!" "Rubbish!" and "Sit down!" As the Daily Telegraph observed: "Certainly those who had never before heard that curious compromise between a belch, a yawn and a groan, which [is officially transcribed] as a 'cheer,' must have been hard put to know what it signified." Coming through clearly, however, was a cry of "Send him to Europe!" when Labor M.P. Andrew Faulds hailed Wilson as a "wily old wizard" for his recent success in the EEC referendum...
...that the mother has received a drug to make her forget her suffering. Esther reacts with further horror: "I thought it sounded just like the sort of drug a man would invent. Here was a woman in terrible pain, obviously feeling every bit of it or she wouldn't groan like that, and she would go straight home and start another baby, because the drug would make her forget how bad the pain had been, when all the time, in some secret part of her, that long, blind, doorless and windowless corridor of pain was waiting to open...
...first. The script is not quite funny enough--though its effort is respectable and never embarrassing--to carry too snany words without music. "You want me to cut off my toe for you?" one of the characters asks. "No, I'll cut it off for you" is the groan-worthy reply. "Are you nervous?" someone asks. "No, no, I'm just nervous, that's all." It does come off better on stage, but not that much better...
Molelike Creatures. On the opening page Gill seems to side with Ross. New Yorker writers, he claims, "tend to be lonely, molelike creatures, who work in their own portable darkness and who seldom utter a sound above a groan." In theory, no one who was not there gives a damn about this loving reliquary -anecdotes, old cartoons, floor plans and interoffice memos. Might it not be more fun to curl up with a rollicking treatise on varieties of corn blight or infrastructure at the Bank of America...