Word: growlingly
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...very best, his voice sounds as if it were drifting over the walls of a tuberculosis sanitarium?but that's part of the charm. Sometimes he lapses into a scrawny Presleyan growl, and sometimes his voice simply sinks into silence beneath the pile-driver chords he plays on his guitar. But he has something unique to say, and he says it in songs of his own invention that are the best songs of their style since Woody Guthrie...
Visitors who dropped in at No. 27 Rue de Fleurus in Paris in the 1930s occasionally found Gertrude Stein waving a delicate handkerchief at her dog. "Play Hemingway," she would say. "Be fierce." The dog would growl...
After four months of enforced hibernation, the press's surliest bear was back on the growl. From Tucson, where he holed up after Hearst's King Features syndicate fired him last summer for daring to attack the boss (he wrote that William Randolph Hearst Jr. was wanting in "character, ability or loyalty''), onetime Hearst Columnist Westbrook Pegler. 68, let it be known that he had found a new vent for his wrath. Beginning in February, said Pegler, he will write one political column a month for American Opinion-the house organ of the John Birch Society...
Grow, industry, grow, grow, growl Harmony and sincerity...
Miss Williams, a short but large woman of great dignity, has the most extraordinary voice of any gospel singer. At one moment, her tone is full and clear; at the next it shifts to a growl, her full vibrato becoming a whisper. The other night she improvised melodic lines within strikingly complex rhythms...