Word: growls
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...second movie that Jack Webb-the big gun on TV's Dragnet-has directed and starred in, is pretty much the same old dum-de-dum-dumfounding stuff, but set in ragtime. Webb has cast himself this time as a sort of Prohibition era Lord Jim with a growl machine, a cornet player in a honky-tonk who caves in to a protection racketeer (Edmond O'Brien) and has to keep running from his conscience with the racketeer riding on his billfold. At last he runs into Janet Leigh, a flapper with more visible flap than the censor...
...tunes of torchy temper, sung with a fine ear for theatrical effect, e.g., the long, aching swoop, the insinuating droop, the ecstatic quaver, the lilting bounce, the suggestive growl. Tenor Short accompanies himself on the piano...
Small Wooden Box. Churchill rose to a silent and expectant House of Commons. His notes lay before him; his hearing aid was in place. As he offered the government motion, approving Britain's 1955 Defense estimates, his voice, gathering strength, carried the familiar lisping growl to every corner of the chamber. Churchill plunged into his subject by slapping the sides of the dispatch...
...Till You Hear from Me (1947). Highlights: Kay Davis' wordless, sensuous crooning in the Creole Love Call, the elegant interplay of Johnny Hodges' alto and Harry Carney's bouncing baritone in I Let a Song Go Out of My Heart. Baby Cox's unforgettable vocal growl in The Mooche...
...gets $500 a month to play first base and manage the team. Reyes makes $275 at third. Many a Kingsport fan comes out to the ball game just to see Reyes lumber up to the plate, shift his cud of tobacco, wag his massive hindquarters at the crowd and growl at the catcher. The crowd likes the volatile Cubans, too; sometimes one of them steals a base, not because the situation warrants it, but simply because he is in the mood...