Word: mooing
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...October, alarmed at this drift toward such dairy delights, Satirist Maurice Lane Norcott attempted to warn readers of the London Daily Mail against the perils involved. Plumbing the darkest depths of his imagination, he envisioned a Hollywood soft drink fountain in the heart of London and called it "Mother Moo-moo's Milk...
...Novelist Shute's lively discernment about people & places. The villagers who shelter Jean in Japanese-occupied Malaya are real farmers in a real village. The London office of Jean's solicitor is perfectly authentic, and in Australia the reader can almost hear her husband's cattle moo. But Jean is as unconvincing as a Horatio Alger hero...
...insecurely on the top of a columnar neck and broad, sloping shoulders wrapped in the shapeless fashions of two decades ago, it gives her the appearance of an amiable performing seal; and like a seal she seems naively anxious to please. Her big voice glides effortlessly from a low moo to an assured squeak; her huge, heavily lashed eyes roll dramatically. In a monstrous travesty of daintiness, she minces across the stage on squarely planted feet. For perhaps ten minutes an audience seeing her for the first time watches with something resembling embarrassed bewilderment. Then Carol Channing slides into...
Last month the Melanesians were crying "Sing-out-Sorri" for the needy children of the whole world. "Palanti piki-nini," wrote a reporter in the Rabaul (New Britain) News, were in trouble, sick, starving, and "nogat moo, papa na mama" "Yumi ologeta," he wrote, "i halivim" (You me altogether we help 'em). In the U.S. some 25 private charities had half-heartedly joined with the U.N. to make the same sing-out in the United Nations Appeal for Children, but their unwieldy, badly organized campaign was a dud. Instead of a hoped-for $60 million it had turned...
Otherwise, Andover pitcher Bram Aruold handcuffed the visitors with three hits while Walt Horne, who came on in with two out in the eighth, gave up one more. Roy Meears was Coach Moo Berg's pitching nomination and went all the way, allowing three earned runs and nine hits. Andover scored once in the second, three times in the seventh, and twice in the eighth...