Word: rasps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...them to the roof or throw them away. As the soldier, Gielgud gives a dashing if slightly unmodulated performance. As the lady, Pamela Brown proves that Fry did not write the part for her in vain. No one has a more gloriously uppity charm; no voice can simultaneously so rasp and thrill; no one ever made standoffishness more come-hitherable...
...speaks in a modest (one kilowatt) voice, but entertains a devoted audience recruited mostly from Montreal's French-speaking east end. One night last week, listeners heard the announcer start off the 9 o'clock show with a recording by Chanteuse Yvette Giraud. Then with a brutal rasp the needle was knocked across the record and a harsh voice interrupted the program...