Word: singsonging
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...Louise's father had not learned about Western music in Paris, his daughter's music might have been entirely in the native singsong style. But when she was six, he decided she should learn to play the piano, bought her a metal-bodied, warp-proof (but tinny-toned) instrument. By the time she was twelve she had learned everything the sisters in a local Roman Catholic missionary school could teach her. After four more years of private lessons, she went to the Paris Conservatory. She soon found that her talents lay in the light-fingered piano music...
...characterization that the movie really catches fire. Making her screen debut at 45, after some twoscore years of success on stage and radio (she was the original Miss Duffy of Duffy's Tavern), auburn-haired Actress Booth, shiftlessly waddling around and prattling away endlessly in a singsong voice, does a highly skillful job of bringing the gabby, good-natured, slatternly Lola to life. For her stage portrayal of Lola, Shirley Booth won five awards (New York Drama Critics Circle, Newspaper Guild, Donaldson, Barter, Antoinette Perry). Her screen characterization may yet win her a sixth: an Academy of Motion Picture...
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...