Word: mumblers
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Willie, ordinarily a monosyllabic mumbler when it comes to talking about himself, once broke into a fairly long speech to explain his way with horses: "I'm trying to save the horse all the time-and hold his run for when he needs it. I try to break fast, but after that I don't mind the others,passing me, as long as my horse has a run left. Most of all, I like to sit comfortable on a horse. And I like to have the horse run comfortable under...
Outraged Senator Henry Fountain Ashurst, self-styled "peripatetic bifurcated volcano of language," wrote to Secretary of the Interior Ickes: "The press quotes you as saying Senator Vandenberg is the Senate's greatest mumbler of long words. Why did you do that to me? What have I done to you? You know very well that I am a greater mumbler of long words than Arthur Vandenberg...
...Manhattan, one Henry Fisher, traveling man, writhed in his seat at Keith's Hippodrome. Behind him sat someone mumbling the cinema subtitles aloud. Mr. Fisher remonstrated. The mumbler behind struck Mr. Fisher on the head, jabbed him with a knife. Mr. Fisher sued the theatre...