Word: lisp
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Italo Balbo at 23 came out of the War and the hardy Alpine corps with a bronze medal, two silver medals, a lisp and vaguely revolutionary ideas. The last he put into a newspaper called L'Alpino. Back in his native Ferrara where, as a schoolboy, he had organized and led farmworkers in fights against landowners. Balbo was among the first to enroll in the rising movement of Fascism. Enormously ambitious, popping with energy, he made such a good job of clubbing the opposition that he was put in charge of II Duce's own territory. When...
Most Secretaries of State would have been awed by the size and complexity of the world problems before the Roosevelt Administration-but not Democrat Cordell Hull. His job is thoroughly to the liking of this long lean Tennessean with mournfully drooping shoulders and a slight lisp. It dovetails perfectly with what he has been preaching for more than 20 years. At hand now is the chance of a lifetime to put his economic gospel to the fierce test of world opinion-and action...
...south called the Shullaks. ''They were all over six feet, and the only people I ever had to look up to, always. We had considerable difficulties with the language at first. . . . Tribal custom called for the removal of the four front teeth of all adults. Consequently, they lisp almost everything they say." Soon, nevertheless, Dr. Giffen erected a mission, organized a school, translated two gospels and baptized 600 lisping Shullaks...
...time wears on, however, Miss Lake finds that her fame is eclipsed by Mr. Whiting in the new talkies, a field of endeavor which a slight lisp makes impossible...
...embassy. He has a sister Maria Christina, another sister Isabel. Like the Jaeckel boys (sons of the U. S. consul general) Dr. Algernon Osborne's children go to Miss Ruth Faison Shaw's school for offspring of the U. S. colony, and all lisp fluent Italian...