Word: lisping
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ensues, in which she barters for his body and he gambles to save her soul. On the surface, Milk Train is Flora's story and incontestably Hermione Baddeley's vehicle. She can put the chill of mortality into a sibilant whisper, all vanity into a grandiose Churchillian lisp, all lechery into a creamy smirk. As she coughs, groans and rages about the stage, she is larger than death...
Then came her first success with The Children's Hour. During the rehearsals for that play, Miss Hellman made a diary entry which remains a summation of the theater for her: "Lisp, lisp, lisp, and Thomas Wolfe." She explained that "lisp" refers to a character whose manner of speech she refused to change despite continued harrying from her director and others. Thomas Wolfe represents the endless complaints she heard from Aline Bernstein, her set designer and Wolfe's mistress...
Britain's most aristocratic kingmaker is Robert Arthur James Gascoyne-Cecil, 67, fifth Marquess of Salisbury. Lean, bony-faced, speaking with a slight Edwardian lisp, Salisbury has roamed the inner chambers of power for three decades. At his urging, Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden resigned in protest against Chamberlain's appeasement of Mussolini and Hitler. Salisbury was a strong proponent of Eden's ill-fated intervention in Suez. In 1957 Salisbury resigned from Prime Minister Harold Macmillan's government because he thought that Britain had gotten "too soft" in dealing with the rebellion in Cyprus...