Word: singsong
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This time Coe, his old air of self-righteousness completely muffled, made no indignant, categoric denials of Communist membership or espionage. Instead, 65 times, in a flat singsong, he refused to answer committee questions, on the now familiar ground that he might incriminate himself. He refused, for instance, to say whether he had ever known White or Lauchlin Currie. He even refused to say whether he was then & there engaged in espionage against the U.S. Cried the hearing's exasperated chairman, Senator Herbert O'Conor: "The sorriest spectacle . . . Very disgraceful . . . Coe should be dismissed summarily from his post...
...Highlights: a 90-minute tour of Scotland Yard, lunch with Prime Minister Winston Churchill, tea at Buckingham Palace along with some 7,000 other guests at the first garden party given by Queen Elizabeth II, dinner at the home of Douglas Fairbanks Jr., where guests enjoyed "a very subdued singsong or community hum." The trip, said Mar garet, has a two-fold purpose: to give her voice a rest and to escape from politics. Said she: "I've been to the last four conventions; I've served my time...
...Year. He put Scheherazade in the petroleum business and oiled the wheels of chaos. His acid tears dissolved one of the remaining pillars of a once great empire. In his plaintive, singsong voice he gabbled a defiant challenge that sprang out of a hatred and envy almost incomprehensible to the West...
Myers sometimes writes as if he had gone berserk, but just as often, in his effort to persist in the singsong scaldic tone of his tale, he loses his reader in thick northern mists...
...text in his trembling hands, started to read. After a few words he choked, his eyes filled with tears. He swayed from side to side. An aide quickly grasped his right arm to prevent him from falling. Mossadeq blew his nose, shook his head, and read on unevenly in singsong Persian. As he swayed back & forth, the aide had a hard time keeping him on his feet...