Word: hissing
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...admirer of Miss Sitwell but I will absolutely worship her if she can hiss that sentence...
...Peter Arno is an old master. In Ladies and Gentlemen, he has put together a fat retrospective show (246 drawings, 1926-51) of what he regards as his best cartoons. With an accent on sex almost as bold as his brush strokes, Arno scores brilliantly as a social hiss-torian of café society...
...Stalin's greatest victories have been won in the United States" he cried while waving his forefinger like a baton. "Poland was lost in Washington, D.C. by Alger Hiss. China was lost in our nation's capitol." These charges are familiar, but Budenz supported them in a unique way. He grabbed a thin red volume from somewhere and read off a eulogy to Stalin by the Chinese Delegation to the Seventh International. "Strange words aren't they," said Budenz, "coming from Asia-for-the-Asiatics like Owen J. Lattimore...
CONGRATULATIONS ON YOUR STERLING DEFENSE OF TYDINGS, HISS, MARSHALL, JESSUP AND THE REST. YOU HAVE EARNED THE CONFIDENCE OF A DISILLUSIONED AMERICAN PUBLIC AND HURRAH FOR SENATOR MCCARTHY...
...constantly dazzling methods. Technically no more than an extended dialogue, pyrotechnically it constitutes a splendid show. There are drawbacks: like almost everything of Shaw's, the Hell Scene could be shorter. But the characters score their points like polished duelists, flash their rhetoric like master showmen, make ideas hiss and coil and spring like creatures of melodrama. There are drawbacks to the performers, too: Charles Boyer's decided French accent and Charles Laughton's occasional tendency to ham. But in general, the quartet offers fine ensemble playing, with Boyer a magnetic Juan, Laughton a suavely smiling Devil...