Word: nasalate
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...blonde, blue-eyed Actress Virginia Payne has never missed a performance, stands loyally by the washboard weepers. "Radio is a companion and these characters are friends to millions of lonely people," she says in a soft, nasal voice. "It is not supposed to be a pretentious art form. It is not Aristotelian with beginnings, middles and endings, but a series of situations and characters that must extend and develop over great periods of time. Our critics are people who do not stay with us." Although key telegrams are still delivered on the Friday program and opened on Monday, Actress Payne...
...being used by the Army as a hostage to keep the McCarthy committee from finding out, among other things, why a brigadier general named Ralph Zwicker had permitted the honorable discharge of a Red-tinted Army dentist named Irving Peress. For 36 days televised hearings made Joe's nasal rhythms, his low-pitched interruptions, his trademark phrases the stock of every mimic in the nation...
...beat is hard and jumping, the yodels are nasal, and the clipped British consonants that bristle occasionally among the carefully slurred ham-hock vowels are hilarious. The songs are chain-gang, camp-meeting U.S. imports: Wabash Cannonball, Frankie and Johnny, I Shall Not Be Moved. The musicians generally are amateurs, paid with coffee and Cokes, belting out their rockabilly on a couple of guitars, a banjo and a bass fiddle (sometimes store-bought, more often conjured out of an empty tea chest, a broomstick and a knotted string...
...important to remember when remaking the nose for a one-eyed lad not to build the bridge so high that he cannot see the motor bus coming from the blind side." This reminds him of the one-eyed Count of Montefeltro (1422-82), who deliberately had part of his nasal bridge removed: "Thus his one good eye peeking through the notch in his nose discouraged friends sitting on his blind side from trying to poison...
...nose-bobbing for appearances' sake: "If as the patient comes in the door you can't take your eyes off the huge and distorted nose, then reduction is usually justified." But some people with normal noses have a "nasal complex"; no surgery can help them. "Such patients are usually sent by a psychiatrist. The best thing to do is to send them back; the psychiatrist has taken the easy way out by suggesting surgery to cure a nasal complex...