Word: robustly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Turks in the Well. The Clooney voice is known to the trade as both "barrelhouse" and blue, i.e., robust and fresh, with an undercurrent of seductiveness. It can spin out a slow tune with almost cello-like evenness, or take on a raucous bite in a fast rhythm. In a melancholy mood, it has a cinnamon flavor that tends to remind fans of happier days gone by-or soon to come. Moreover, thanks to the malocclusion of the Clooney jaw, her voice carries just a hint of a lisp. A word like "kiss" comes out a bit like "kish...
...movie has some interesting scenery, filmed in and around New York, and some effective minor types, notably a group of smart-aleck cabbies. In a straight acting role, Song & Dance Man Dailey plays the cab driver in robust style, while Constance Smith is a winsomely wide-eyed passenger. Amusing scene: Colleen Smith using a bit of blarney to talk an Irish cop out of giving Cabbie Dailey a traffic ticket...
Texas' Galveston, once a pirate hideout, has earned an equally robust reputation in recent years for freewheeling vice, gambling, prostitution and illegal liquor traffic. The Galveston papers, the morning News (circ. 17,510) and evening Tribune (circ. 11,909), both owned by 87-year-old Financier W. L. Moody Jr., do not get excited about it. They take the view that the wide-open situation is what Galveston wants; any change should come at the polls, not through their crusading. But their little brother and Galveston County neighbor, the Texas City Sun (circ. 4,573), which is also owned...
...Story of Robin Hood. Robust version of the old legend, with Richard Todd fighting for king, country and fair Maid Marian (TIME, June...
...believes that the Democrats have more difficulty in keeping their own forces in line than the Republicans, because a larger proportion of the Democrats have relatively low income and educational levels. This, he said, explains "the rather robust language" used by Truman and others to show that the Republican party is controlled by the same old crowd. "Herbert Hoover, the depression, Wall Street and various other notions, not necessarily of immediate relevence, have use in renewing the embers of Democratic loyalty," he said...