Word: nasality
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While a New Yorker's "thoity-thoid street" grates on certain sensitive ears, so does a Southerner's "Ah" for "I." So, let's call the whole thing off. . . . Let the New Englander retain his nasal twang; it adds flavor and color. Let us not have a Civil War about...
...Shopping. News & Guide gossiper) was promptly questioned by Minneapolis Mayor George E. Leach. He refused to tell the source of his news although Mayor Leach threatened to jail him if his grisly prediction was fulfilled. When it came all too true, Columnist Adams again told police in his scratchy, nasal voice that a reporter cannot break a confidence. Yet this was serious business. That morning, while police unavailingly checked reports that the killing was the result of an A. F. of L.C. I. O. feud, Cedric Adams feverishly telephoned the home of his informant. When he got no answer, Prophet...
...erysipelas, childbed fever. But no one ever saw the germ of measles. Therefore bacteriologists tossed the subject into that catchpot of medical conjecture labeled VIRUS. Only means of immunity which proved effective was hypodermic injection of serum from the blood of people convalescing from measles; or inoculations of the nasal secretions of measles victims in the first stage of the disease...
...knew the exact location of the mines. Along mile-high precipices, over the backs of peaks twice that height, the laborers toiled with bags of nuggets. Llamas could carry only 100 Ib. through that rarefied air, burros-even though an extra set of nostrils had been punched through their nasal passages at birth-about 150 Ib. Men were cheaper, but when forced labor was abolished no paid workers could be found for the job. Engineers of Bolivia's Aramayo Mines for ten years figured how to make profits from deep valley gold mining before they realized that the airplane...
...being provided. It encloses both nose and mouth, is fairly comfortable. His Majesty, pinching his own nose together jocularly with his fingers, spoke of how the World War type of mask used to pinch noses. "He spoke while demonstrating," reported an attendant, "and the strong nasal tones emitted rocked the royal party with laughter...