Word: rasps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With a cry for his "Mammy" and a Jolson-like rasp agitating his Adam's apple to the tune of "You Made Me Love You," Edward M. Lamont '48 tossed his Hasty Pudding and Eliot House inhibitions to the winds of the Loew's State air conditioner last night and triumphantly made his way to the finals of the publicity-born Al Jolson singing jamboree...
Ickes, with a rapier rasp: "You can't bamboozle...
...came home in June, Reporter Allen has spent most of his time on a hard-hitting campaign to get better prosthetic devices for amputees. In his spare time he has learned to type 45 words a minute on a left-handed typewriter, had his teeth fixed to soften the rasp in his voice, the better to talk on the radio...
...days of peace, the ABC network last week bought a voice that reassured America in the days of war: the crackling1 Hoosier rasp of former OWI chief Elmer Davis. More than 30 advertisers have offered to sponsor his thrice-a-week commentary-at $1,500 a broadcast...
...Fifth Army, in positions at right angle to the British, held quiet. The Fifth was waiting for its new commander, rasp-voiced Texan Lieut. General Lucian King Truscott Jr., who last week succeeded Lieut. General Mark Clark, now commander of the Allied armies in Italy. But a new commander would not necessarily mean a swift drive to the north. Mark Clark's armies were short of men; the Allied push, and almost all of its European pushing power, was in France...