Word: lisping
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...stutterer as a boy, he overcame his affliction by forcing himself to deliver class talks and joining the debating team. In 1959, when he saw a picture of himself puffing a cigar like Boss Tweed, he stopped smoking on the spot. Until last year, he spoke with a lisp; he had that corrected by wearing braces over his bottom teeth for seven painful months and having his upper teeth capped...
Initial queries to correspondents, an operation that we have managed to streamline fairly well over the years, mysteriously disappeared or arrived so garbled as to be unintelligible. One Teletype machine actually developed a lisp. Clarifications were quickly sent out, prompting Boston Correspondent Ruth Galvin to reply: "Re clarification of clarification: don't apologize. The project is taking a little time because I can't get a dial tone on my telephone, one source is unavailable because his lines are down, and another is tied up with a faulty furnace." After an on-schedule, trouble-free flight into Detroit...
...program man is Dudley Do-Right; the wife is Debbie Reynolds in her new TV comedy show ("Oh, Mr. Mayflower, my husband didn't make you out to be a horse's ass."); the ambassador's daughter who organizes the students at Nonomura and goes to Radcliffe has a lisp and is straight out of The Impossible Years. And it is rumored that Art Buchwald doesn't really exist-that he is the unfulfilled dream of Walter Lippman, or better yet, Walter Lippman, disguised as a humorist...
Personally, he has none of the glowing appeal that helps create forceful political personalities; he does not exude the image of the dashing young prince come to lift the curtain of darkness and gloom. He talks with a lisp and his face is rough and lumpy...
...course assistant. " In Bunny's own words. " Make sure he is cruder, more reactionary, and basically less pleasant than even you are. Then give him a free hand. " It is also important that the assistant be totally inept as a lecturer ( ideally he should drool as well as lisp ), and that he cast a favorable light on your physical appearance. [ In the event that your academic credentials are likewise open to question be careful to pick an assistant with ones yet more questionable, say a quickie doctorate from the University of Guatemala...