Word: growls
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Interesting acting job: Mercedes Mc-Cambridge, as Stark's hard-boiled assistant, puts a snarl and growl into her radio-trained voice, spreading a small bonfire through her scenes and stealing them...
...crowd also saw three mop-haired reserve players growl at the microphone, watched Hugh Shepley '51 juggle, yelled for a speech from Duke Sedgwick's female cousin, and cheered the varsity at two rally sites--first Soldiers Field and then the Kirkland-Eliot-Winthrop triangle...
...here on the beach. Until we began ?o circulate among them with our books and magazines, there was an undeclared war constantly going on. One had built a 10 ft. fence to keep out prying passersby; one was a grouchy old codger who'd scare you with his growl; another read only the most violent detective magazines. Some of the women in the camp were groveling in True Confessions, living in a misty world of make-believe and dreaming of the day they'd be able to go back to civilization. We each lived our life oblivious...
...lost "what little sense he had formerly, if indeed, he ever had any at all." He grudgingly admitted that Socialist Norman Thomas seemed to have some brains, but wrote him off immediately. He thought Dixiecrat J. Strom Thurmond was "the best of all the candidates," but with a final growl, he warned that "all the worst morons in the South...
...neat and tidy admirer of the neat and tidy in the past, Stravinsky considers himself an artisan, like a cobbler making shoes. He applies his dictum on writing music-"To know how to discard, as the gambler says"-to conversation, sometimes brushes off questions with a brusque growl: "Ach, I am not interested...