Word: nasality
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...convention moved toward adjournment last week, its outstanding leader was Alfred Emanuel Smith, four times New York's Governor. Red of nose, nasal of voice, quick of wit as ever, Al Smith had early distinguished himself as the best political infighter at the show. Almost singlehanded he wrecked a proposal for large-scale public housing, by inserting a clause forbidding the State to finance any housing program from real-estate taxes except in emergencies. With some Democratic and more Republican support, he tacked onto the judiciary article a section empowering the courts to review facts as well...
...Every summer, over 6,000,000 people in the U. S. are racked by its sneezes, blinded by its tears. For half the sufferers, the 15th of August, when ragweed fever begins, is their last sneezeless day till frost. Why the disease always strikes on August 15 is no nasal mystery, but merely another indication of Nature's regularity. As August 15 approaches, the shortening of daylight hours allows the ragweed plant precisely enough sunlight to ripen it on that day. And the number of hours of daylight and darkness for a given date is the same from year...
Montana's bitter, nasal Wheeler announced he had just learned that Harry Hopkins, Works Progress Administrator, dispenser of one-half of the billions in the Lend-Spend bill, had announced his choice for Senator in Iowa's impending primary election. Said Mr. Wheeler: "I was shocked. . . . Members of the Senate, and myself, frequently have denounced corporations which place slips in the pay envelopes saying, 'You should vote for such & such a candidate...
...mellow. By teams of four, then singly, Judge Taylor had them brought into another room, where bright light made them burst into song. If they were reticent, he shook a wooden rattle, coaxed, "Come on, boy." Listening for Rolls, Gluckes, Bells, Schokels, Flutes, and for faults- Hard Aufzug, Bad Nasal Tour, Ugly Interjection-he awarded points, to the best between 60 and 80 out of a possible 100. Weary after three days' hearings, Judge Taylor gave the show's championship to year-old Golden Gate Special, a soft yellow male Roller owned by Howard W. Lewis...
...Seventy times seven the actual inexpugnable colorless formless and insentient night flows through the well-veined nasal passages with an odor of stale crickets and pale...