Word: lisp
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...spite of a triangular love story, there is not one tantrum; in spite of seven Trapp children, not one brat. Surely even an unexceptionable family show can be more fun: The Sound of Music ends by making its warmheartedness as cloying as a lollipop, as trying as a lisp...
Witness after witness took the stand to tell how she had conspired to have her daughter-in-law killed to reclaim the affections of her son Frank, an owl-eyed, 30-year-old lawyer who held hands with her in public, talked with a lisp, was known around the courthouse as "Wicked Wascal Wabbit." Most explicit of all the witnesses were two Santa Barbara ex-convicts, who testified that mother Duncan offered them $6,000 to kill Frank's pregnant wife. They lured her into a rented automobile, beat her into unconsciousness with a pistol, strangled her, then dumped...
...most part are graft-ridden, selfish individuals, and it is a good omen to see youth and virility in the figure of a man like Castro. He is justified in being irritated with the condemnation of his "war criminal" trials. Wishy-washy humanitarians in this country (who lisp, ''My, isn't he awful? He must stop that.") must make Castro laugh...
...born Louise (hence, from a childish lisp. Ouida) Rame, in Bury St. Edmunds. Her father, a mysterious Frenchman, may or may not have been a spy for Louis Napoleon. As she grew up, she displayed a tough mind and an absurd imagination-something between Racine and Edward Lear, says Biographer Stirling. When she insisted on behaving like her own fictional characters (e.g., flinging an ivory cigar case from her opera box at the feet of an Italian tenor), it became clear that England was not for her nor she for England...
...dimple. The goldilocks had turned to deep brown, and the manner was demure as dimity; but the eyes were still dewy, the acting full of artful childishness, and when she sang the show's theme song, Dreams Are Made for Children, the voice had the same lilting lisp that warmed the hearts of millions with Polly Wolly Doodle and On the Good Ship Lollipop...