Word: heckler
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...praised the other five Communist ministers in the present Government for working indefatigably for recovery. A heckler, referring to last winter's electric power crisis, wanted to know why it was necessary to have a Communist Minister of Production in order to cut off the electric current. Thorez' wife retorted that two factors, lack of coal and the drought, had caused the power shortage. Production Minister Marcel Paul had spurred the miners on to increase coal production until it exceeded the prewar level. Then salty Jeannette Vermeersch added with a wink: "And, comrades, we don't believe...
...week. Leo ("The Lip") Durocher, the natty and cultivated friend of the great, the famed radio guest star, the manager of the hottest Dodger team Ebbets Field has yet known-"Mr. Brooklyn" himself-was in court facing five years in jail just because he was accused of slugging a heckler...
...Lippy") Durocher, normally eloquent manager of the Brooklyn Dodgers, made personal history of a sort when he was bound over to a grand jury on a charge of beating up a heckler. Through the entire court proceedings Lippy uttered not a word...
West Derbyshire (pronounced Darby-shuh) had everything: a young Lord and Coldstream Guards officer, up for the House of Commons against a village cobbler's son whose father had once beaten the young Lord's father for the same seat; a Russian heckler, complete with astrakhan coat; babies to be patted, mud to be slung and dodged, an issue for the nation...
...Russian heckler, a Mrs. Barbara Pataleeva, had a habit of rising in meetings to ask if the Marquess had ever done a day's work in his life. He said he'd been in the Army since finishing at Cambridge. Having been in France as a soldier once during this war, he said he expected to go again. That made the voters wonder where he would find the time for both statecraft and fighting, especially since his uncle-in-law, Lieut. Colonel Henry Hunloke, resigned the seat because of the pressure of war duties. They asked...