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Last week, in "Slapsie" Maxie Rosenbloom's big saloon on Los Angeles' Wilshire Boulevard, Kay, now 25, was singing with a new kind of voice. Howling down the horns had given her a husky growl on the blues-but she still had a sweet, sandpapered tone left for the ballads. And Kay, who was born on an Oklahoma Indian reservation (she is a mixture of Irish, Iroquois, Cherokee and Choctaw), was beginning to look like a girl the U.S. would soon be hearing about. Her record of I'm the Lonesomest Gal in Town has already sold...
...block any other legislation for a period of two years. Labor wanted the delaying power cut to one year. Attlee's main interest in the matter was to insure clear passage of Labor's forthcoming bill to nationalize iron and steel. From the Tory benches came a growl of fury. "A deliberate act of Socialist aggression," muttered Winston Churchill. (But he grinned when Attlee began quoting what Churchill, as a member of the Liberal Government in 1911, had said against the "formidable and even menacing" powers the Lords retained even after...
Lassie takes about 15 whining and barking cues a week. He also pants with exquisite nuance (and with considerable editing by the sound panel), but cannot be depended on to growl or snarl...
...landed in Cuba, Columbus discovered "a dog that didn't bark." Barking, like kissing and sending Christmas cards, is a social habit fostered-for better or worse-by civilization. Wild dogs never bark, and among primitive peoples even house pets and hunting dogs seldom speak above a dignified growl...
...Mahasaya ("The Levitating Saint"), often hung in the air, meditating without visible means of support. Another, called Krishnananda, shared his hermitage with a lioness, which he had taught to appreciate a strictly vegetarian diet and to utter the mystical word "Aum" (meaning "cosmic vibratory power") "in a deep, attractive growl...