Word: um
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...wine. 1000 pop-overs baked each day. 250 squash-players per month. I asked if I could see the squash courts. Mr. Stack bent down and replied in a quiet voice that it wouldn't be possible for me to go upstairs because the men would be in their... um... you know, birthday suits...
...think this desire to cover up the odor could be interpreted as some kind of desire to cover up, um," I stumbled, "any sexual feelings or desires...
Only the Holy Know. From that point on, solaced by his favorite wife, Queen Um Shagran, he settled into a remarkably sedate routine. A Moslem teetotaler and nonsmoker for many years, he made a point of rising early, spending some time at prayer and then eating a frugal breakfast of milk, toast and honey. Next came audiences in the throne room that he had had constructed in the hotel, followed by a minuscule lunch, a nap, and a relaxing hour or two with his daughters and their children. Dinner usually consisted of a glass of milk, and bedtime was before...
...ruminated. "Um. I see two rock spirits trying to escape from a mountain...
...headed Troobnick, imported by the Festival just for this role, fits to perfection Shaw's prescription of "a small, thin, ridiculous little man." He has no trouble convincing us of his great love of animals, and is wholly at home in Shaw's amusing baby-talk (such as "Did um get an awful thorn into um's tootsums wootsums?"). The extraction of the thorn from the Lion's paw is nicely handled, after which Androcles and the Lion perform a waltz that starts in the minor and shifts to major as they dance off into the distance and leave...