Word: nasality
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...What he grabs is Marilyn Monroe, who has stopped off on her slow progress from the Ozarks to Hollywood to earn some carfare as a "chantoosie" in a third-rate nightclub. Murray quivers to his boot heels when Marilyn slithers onstage to sing That Old Black Magic in a nasal whine, while fluttering a bilious green scarf in a deadly parody of Hildegarde's continental airs and graces...
...million volts) and radio-cobalt devices for treating cancer. The consensus: in many types of cancer they are no better than old-fashioned X rays; in some cases they offer only slight improvement. But they can markedly increase the cure rate in cancers of the mouth, nasal sinuses, brain, esophagus, parotid gland...
...Love (Helen Forrest; Capitol). A popular songbird of the swing era who starred with the Goodman, Shaw and James bands, Forrest, after a long time in the woods, swings back in fine condition. She sounds smoother and more confident; she still has plenty of life and the same sweetly nasal voice...
...Yeah? This is Holden. Yeah, Marty. Hold it a sec." The muscular man with the hard eyes palms the phone. "I'll take those letters now, Miss Moller." The voice is hard, too, even sexy in a nasal way. Holden flips a Parliament into the corner of his mouth. "Marty? Shoot." Miss Moller brings the letters. Holden stands up suddenly and paces the floor, still listening. His brogues gleam richly on the broadloom, his tie is tensed into a merciless Yale knot. "Yeah, boy. Versteh. Versteh." He sits down, props the phone with his left shoulder, reads the letters...
Case's opening statement rambled from South Dakota weather (blustery) to his family remedy for sinus headaches (a nasal jelly). But there were some hard facts. On Jan. 25. said Case, he received word from South Dakota that a Nebraska lawyer named John Neff had contributed $2,500 to his campaign. Since Case had never received more than $300 in a single contribution, the news "sort of took my breath away." The donation was especially puzzling because Neff's name "did not mean anything to me." Case therefore checked around, learned that Neff had been asking around about...