Word: lisp
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...quite so dewy as she used to be. Paced by the dark veteran, Bill Robinson, through two simple tap routines, one to a pleasing tune called Toy Trumpet, she seems something more than a doll, something less than a little girl. Her singing, almost free now of the lilting lisp that has three times made her No. 1 Oh-&-Ah cinema champion (TIME, Jan. 3), sounds much like that of any little Sunday-morning radio aspirant...
Unlike most comedians today, Ed Wynn writes a lot of his own lines. As a "student and analyzer" of humor he has developed his giggle, his high voice, his lisp. The show puts Ed's type of humor in effective contrast with the serious undercurrent of anti-war sentiment. On the one hand, in one act, a score of dazzling chorines dance gracefully with their backs always to the audience. They wear sweeping, transparent costumes. The music plays on, the dance becomes more graceful, the rhythm and movement speed up; finally the climax of the dance is reached and suddenly...
Many who believe that behind Franklin Roosevelt's ringing, full-voiced abandonment of traditional U. S. isolationism at Chicago three weeks ago was the gentle, tutorial lisp of Cordell Hull, believe also that Pupil Roosevelt spoke more strongly than his adviser intended. Carefully avoiding expressions like "quarantine" and "concerted effort," whose use by the President jolted many a diplomat, Oldster Hull gave his measured definition of a changing U. S. foreign policy...
BARREN METAL-Naomi Jacob-Macmillan ($2.50). A sentimental family chronicle with an all-Jewish cast of London clothing manufacturers. Beautiful, intuitive, afflicted with a charming lisp, Rachel Pardo struggles for 20 years to save her soul from Husband Meyer's beautifully appointed hell in the West End, succeeds when she goes back to the Ghetto after he is jailed for fraud...
...nasal and genital tissues are histologically related. The mucous membranes of the nose swell during sexual excitement. This well-known phenomenon gives rise to a theory that the noses of many little girls become sensitive as they turn into young womanhood, and that this makes such girls sniff, lisp or pamper their noses in an apparently affected manner, and that this overture to womanhood causes an occasional girl to sneeze uncontrollably. That, a gynecologist might guess, was the trouble with Mary Cleer...