Word: grampus
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Senator Ellison DuRant ("Cotton Ed") Smith, all warmed up and ready to go, hit the air with a diatribe on Americans and the War Effort. Blowing like a grampus, garrumphy, irascible Cotton Ed got so interested in his work (denouncing New Deal regimentation) that he skipped a paragraph, turned the page of his script and came upon the middle of an entirely unrelated sentence about gasoline rationing. Twenty interminable, script-shuffling seconds later listeners on 118 stations heard his frustrated bellow...