Word: singsonging
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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...
...edge of a fertile valley, Rachel Brill, a Rumanian woman, complained about the treatment given her son-in-law, Michael. Michael had degraded himself, was earning his living by building a house. (She omitted to say that his family would get the house.) "Imagine," she wailed in singsong Yiddish, "Michael, a shopkeeper, working with his hands! It would never happen in Rumania. What a country this is! There is nothing to be had, and nothing works properly. People have no respect. Why, in Rumania, now, if there should be trouble getting a shopkeeper's license, you just...
...Betty, "sweet as a rose," who sits "Down in the meadow, where the green grass grows." Donald Duck was a "one-legged duck, two-legged duck, three-legged duck." In Seattle, the singsong went...
...Chicago Stadium last week, extra switchboard operators kept up a singsong chant: "Sorry, no tickets." On the big night, 21,866 fans jammed into the big arena while 5,000 waited outside, unmindful of rain and sleet. It was the largest crowd ever to watch a professional basketball game. The attraction: the amazing Harlem Globetrotters, a razzle-dazzle Negro team which was riding a 113-game winning streak, v. the Minneapolis Lakers, rated the best white team in existence and sparked by towering (6 ft. 10 in.) George Mikan, the basketball player of the half-century...