Word: rasps
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...early '40s, Ed Gardiner was the owner and star of a low-budget radio program called "Duffy's Tavern," and he employed his wife, Shirley Booth, to play the part of rasp-voiced Miss Duffy. The program and the marriage are no longer popular favorites; Gardiner decided to beat U.S. income takes in Puerto Rico, and Miss Booth returned to the stage...
When the summer sun blisters the Manhattan pavement and the rasp of traffic noise mounts to unbearable decibels, one of the most inviting oases-better even than an air-conditioned movie-is the Sculpture Garden of the Museum of Modern Art. There, only two blocks north of towering Rockefeller Center, the visitor may walk in peace amidst birches, hornbeams and willows, linger by cool reflecting pools, or sit on convenient benches, looking at sculpture...
...Kremlin the elaborate medical ritual went on-every flutter of an eyelid neatly noted, every rasp of breath counted. Murder by medicine was a recognized technique in the world Stalin built and ruled; his wary survivors labored to document a thorough record of the Boss's last moments...
Among the cast, three turned in performances that seemed really competent. Thomas Gaylos as the spirit beleaguered Charles, has the true professional rasp in his voice. His acting, with broad grimaces and unnatural inflections, is at times heavy handed, but he is consistent in his portrayal and often rises far above the mediocre...
...Yorker a synonym for urbanity, but he himself remained a bawling, rough-cut outlander from Aspen, Colo. A catty old friend, Alexander Woollcott, once described him as looking like "a dishonest Abe Lincoln." Rumpled, wild-haired and irascible, Ross talked in an ear-splitting voice, a combination of rasp and quack. He often expressed himself in skid-row profanity, or by mere grunts or gap-toothed grins. He had the energy of a bull, and a bull-like charm. Though he often sounded as crass as a cymbal, he had an amazing sensitivity for words, a pouncing...