Word: basset
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...whose effect can still be remotely approximated by sipping twelve-year-old bourbon, straight, while reading Dickens aloud, in a sort of sepulchral purr. Would he criticize an erring colleague? someone would ask. "I shall invoke upon him every condign imprecation," Dirksen would intone, with a quiver of his basset's jowls and the gold-gray ringlets of his hair...
Wearing a blue suit and a basset-hound expression, the burly man sat calmly last week in the witness chair of Atlanta's federal district court, facing the jammed courtroom. "My name is Thomas Bertram Lance," he boomed out. Thus, 2½ years after he was forced to resign as Jimmy Carter's Budget Director, eleven months after he was indicted for bank fraud and three months after his trial began, Bert Lance finally got his day in court...
Marianne Faithfull, it should be pointed out, looks like a basset hound...
What freshman girl do you know who--I misses Eugene, her family's "fat, stupid" basset hound more than anything else from home...
...musicality of Shaw's language pervades the evening. His mother had a fine mezzo-soprano voice, and at the beginning of his journalistic career, he was a music critic signing himself Corno di Bassetto, which means basset horn. The cadences of his speeches are like arias, and Donnelly delivers them that way with an ingratiating Dublin inflection. Indeed, most of Shaw's greater plays could be transposed into operas, just as Pygmalion was made into My Fair Lady...