Word: cockerels
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...Gigli, one whose voice is like honey tapering from the underside of a spoon, but whose height is abbreviated. Now Jeritza, as all the world knows, is a queenly lady "tall as a tall church candle" (TIME, Jan. 5). Mr. Gigli, whenever he sings with her, must swell his cockerel bosom, look to his biceps if he would be seen to play the man. In the last act of Fedora, hero and heroine meet, brawl; the latter is hurled to the ground. Gigli was determined to acquit himself well. Fiercely he struggled against the onslaught of Jeritza, flung her from...
Paris bristled with anger when the flash of the fight arrived. When details ticked in over the cables anger changed to pride. The press presented Eugene Criqui with three new titles to replace the one he lost: Criqui the Brave, True Frenchman, Cockerel Criqui...