Word: lisp
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Future Dreams. The legion of sorrow became bored. The youngsters churned aimlessly around the lobby. Whenever the Duce's name was mentioned, their eyes lit up. A young man with a slight lisp boasted: "We are getting bigger and stronger. Last month we beat up 400 leftist bastards and put 17 in the hospital...
...Faulty Lisp. Congressman Mundt was not entirely satisfied himself with the OIC's Voice of America. But he was not willing to cut its throat because of a "faulty lisp or a foreign accent." Said he: "Let us rather guide it to make certain it develops the sturdy American twang...
...dapper little man with a lisp and a limp walked into an UNRRA office in Germany and showed his credentials. He was Ludger Dionne,* first-term member of the Canadian House of Commons from St. Georges, in Quebec's Beauce County and he was in Germany with the approval of the Canadian Government and the Intergovernmental Committee on Refugees. What he wanted made UNRRA officials blink: 100 girls, preferably Poles...
Irma's debut was promising, if not exactly auspicious. A trustful shopgirl with a protruding lower lip and a slight lisp, her first mistake was leaving her boss's drug store untended while she rushed off to help a man who had been kicked by a horse. In her absence someone rifled the cash register. Equally unfortunate were her attempts to find a nice young man to go out with...
After seven years' absence, The Perfect Fool was back on the air last week. This time Ed Wynn's giggle and lisp, his affectionate idiocy were selling milk (Borden) instead of gasoline (Texaco), as King Bubbles of Happy Island (Blue Network, Fri., 7 p.m., E.W.T.), where refugees from Worry Park ("Step Mournfully, Please") play make-believe. Though his new program is heavy-laden with Elsie the Cow, singers of both sexes and commercials which are part of the plot, Ed Wynn manages, as he has for 42 years of show business, to make the show entirely...