Word: grunting
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...Grunt...
...Hollywood, RKO film studios refused the demand of the Central Casting Bureau that Indian extras who are called on to grunt like Indians be paid, not at the $7.50 daily rate of a silent extra, but at the $25 rate of a speaking extra...
...leaves and crisp breezes and blue skies--and even multicolored thoughts--are not the only things which throb in the Vagabond's heart. There's the shrill of the whistle....the sound of the punt...the dodge of the runner....the cries of the crowd....the grunt of the tackle....the call of a play, and, all over again. Yes, gentlemen, there's also the taste of hot dogs, racoons and bad ale. There are passes too high; there are seats too low. There are kicks on the field; there's kicking in the grandstand. There is good interference...
...while the aspirants worked in groups, under regular and volunteer coaches, including Rae Crowther, Mike Palm, Fesler, Jimmy Knox, and Cliff Gallagher, Harlow himself seemed to be watching everything at once. No slip-shod play escaped his notice--nor for that matter did a good performance miss a barked grunt of "That...
...Snores & Sneezes," famed some 20 years ago. Mr. Wildhack timidly comes onstage in cap & gown, nervously thumbing a notebook, to lecture on labial "Sound Phenomena." With authentic academic embarrassment, he takes up snores, classifies them scientifically, self-consciously illustrates them. Snore 2 d, the "Westinghouse Airbrake," a heart-rending grunt followed by a melancholy whistle, is probably excelled only by 2 f, "The Troubled Conscience," a short moan preceding a moment of insane babble...