Word: stutteringly
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...these, Eileen's role is slight: she is pretty, pursued by boys and at 13 the belle of the Epworth League, the sensation of the eighth grade. Ruth, however, with her stutter, her ability to play baseball, the social ostracism that followed her brilliant performance in the Northern Ohio Debating League, was cut out for trouble. Not entirely given over to girlish recollections, My Sister Eileen is weakest when it approaches slapstick, as in accounts of Father McKenney's washing-machine business; funniest when Author McKenney recalls the simpler sides of old Ohio life-newspaper serials, silent movies...
...Freudian, high-neck-and-long-sleeves maiden aunt; the warm-hearted servant girl (Peggy O'Donnell). Some of the humor gets grey hairs: The tenth time grandma upbraids grandpa for swearing is scarcely as funny as the first. The narrative, toward the end, begins to stagger and stutter. And Mr. Brink (Frank Conroy) stays up in the apple tree long enough to make the captious wonder if it isn't time for the leaves to turn. But that may be because the tree looks (as grandpa would put it) so goddamn natural...
...show had been arranged with the greatest caution for fear the King might get stage fright, relapse into a stutter...
...41st birthday this week be not celebrated or observed. He commanded that he shall be crowned May 12, 1937, the day on which the Duke of Windsor was to have been crowned. The 300 Privy Councilors were asked by all their intimates one question: "Does he still stutter?" No Privy Councilor could be found willing to be quoted as saying that His Majesty does not still stutter...
...Archbishop of Canterbury has his way, the stutter will be called a halt. Broadcast he: "When his people listen to the King they will note an occasional momentary hesitation in his speech. ... It need not cause any sort of embarrassment, for it causes none to him who speaks...