Word: squealing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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While audiences squeal and cheer at the sight of flesh-&-blood performers, singing, dancing, míming, Lolly sits nervously at a desk backstage, interrupts to read newsy telegrams. When possible she answers audience questions on her age ("neither as old as May Robson nor as young as Shirley Temple"), whether Dorothy Lamour's sarong has a zipper. Before she is through she will visit Philadelphia, Detroit, Cleveland, Chicago, bear out the observation of her archenemy, Columnist Hedda Hopper, who once cracked: "They ought to change the old adage to 'Be a columnist and see the world...
...station house the fat man yammered and foamed: "I was never a rat. I was never a rat in my life. I was never a rat. If they leave me alone, I'll go away-I'll never squeal. But if they don't leave me alone I'll squeal. They'll kill me! They'll kill my wife and children...