Word: stinging
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Washington Post Music Critic Paul Hume, whose opinion of daughter Margaret's singing last month prompted Harry Truman to take angry pen in hand, felt the sting of some critical grapeshot himself. After Hume narrated Prokofiev's Peter and the Wolf for a National Symphony children's concert in Constitution Hall, the Post printed a frank opinion by six-year-old Critic Frank Manola: "He doesn't sound like Basil Rathbone on my Peter and the Wolf records. He sounds more like Phil Harris on the radio...
India Edwards, the gabby, gregarious queen bee of the Democratic National Committee's women's division, buzzed into Missouri to sting Republican Senator Forrest Donnell, who is having a hard time getting reelected. The Senator, charged India, is against women. Proof? "He distinguished himself as the only Senator to vote against Mrs. Perle Mesta" as Minister to Luxembourg...
Bandy-legged, Ecuador-born Pancho Segura had Jake's number from the first. He covered court like a bird dog in a chicken coop, took the sting out of Kramer's big serve, whacked his own two-handed forehand drives into the far corners and outguessed Kramer in nearly every rally. It was all over in less than an hour. Score: 6-2, 6-2, 6-1. Explained a somewhat surprised Kramer: "Pancho knocked me down in the first set and never let me get off the floor." Pancho, who gets only a salary, to Kramer...
...take some of the sting out of "Blondie's" passing, Columbia planned to reissue six of the early numbers in the series. If the customers insisted, the studio might even send all 28 pictures on a second swing around the neighborhoods...
...approach, The Velvet Glove is neatly dotted with church figures (including Walter Hampden as a monsignor), pleasantly dusted with conventual and clerical badinage. It is the brighter for the deft warfare between John Williams and Grace George, who with all the airiness of a butterfly can impose the sting of a bee. But the play, a theatrical ladyfinger from the start, gets milder, thinner and crumblier as it proceeds...