Word: lisp
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...their hours were spent in intensive business. Churchill, in spite of his lisp (which he suppresses when he makes a speech), is a superb story teller, with an irony that eats like slow acid. The President, utterly fluent, is an engaging conversationalist. Two such men do not get quickly to the subject of their business...
...years old. He was fat (from good living), rubicund (from good drinking). He walked with a stoop, talked with a lisp. He was tired from a lifetime of fighting singlehanded against "the inadequacy, the apathy, the bloodlessness that ruled England"; from prophesying without effect the things that at last had happened. Britons who had denied him leadership in prosperity, offered him leadership in disaster. He offered them "toil and blood and tears." In its extremity the nation seemed to recognize for the first time that the whole life of this man, whom it had hated and defamed, was a preparation...
...freedom-loving Dutch, in fact all European neutrals, won eulogies last week from First Lord of the Admiralty Winston Churchill. He poured it out in a radio speech from London. But it was not all admiration for these brave peoples. Blunt Mr. Churchill, speaking with a back-throat lisp caused by a badly fitting upper plate, went on to say things that hitherto Great Britain has uttered only under her breath...
Irritated Neutrals. In spite of his dental lisp, Winnie Churchill did a first-class job of oratory. But it sounded ominous to neutrals. It suggested a growth of that school of thought in Great Britain which believes that the way to lick Germany is to fight her elsewhere than in France-in the East, in the North, wherever a battle front may offer...
Death. Some 20 years ago, Scottish-born Dorothy Mackaye was a slip of a lass with a pair of sloe-black, Oriental eyes and an intermittent lisp that made her afraid audiences would laugh at the wrong times if she played dramatic roles. So she turned to comedy, made her biggest hit as Peg in Peg o' My Heart. She also married Musical Comedy Actor Ray Raymond...