Word: gruffer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rises above the limitations of the play. The major role of barrister Sir William Robert is played by Francis L. Sullivan, whose pomposity and gruff voice should provide the play with a comic touch. Sir William is indeed pompous, and since Sullivan has a cold his voice is even gruffer than usual, but the playgoer may wait all evening without hearing him speak a genuinely clever line. As the suspect Leonard Vole, Robert Craven creates a peculiarly obnoxious hero, not from bad acting as one might first suspect, but because Agatha Christic has made him so. The witness...
...high voice belonged to Governor J. Strom Thurmond; the gruffer one came from Olin D. Johnston. Both men wanted Johnston's U.S. Senate seat...
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