Word: nasality
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...observations which might be tedious in another play, such as those on the basic goodness of human nature and the limitless folly of war, are saved in this one through having them spoken by an extremely typical American with a rasping nasal drawl and a fondness for clinches. Heroics, chivalry, and faith are so out of place in this American handyman with his pack of dancing girls, that they come with the freshness of surprise...
Fulton of Oak Falls does nothing to soften the fact that Mr. Cohan's delivery is a nasal, almost snarling monotone which is the epitome of Broadway and has no more modulation than a piccolo rendition of Yankee Doodle, or that his famed chuckle derives much of its effect from its irrelevance to the context. Ed Fulton likes lilacs and Tennyson's poetry, wants his family to be happy. His daughter is unhappy because she is treated like a child, and because her sweetheart's father is an old enemy of Ed Fulton's. When...
...even seen a girl who sneezed so persistently. Johns Hopkins specialists began a new series of tests. A psychiatrist examined the girl and summoned her parents to analyze their mental and emotional makeups. Mary underwent fluoroscopy, blood testing, other examinations. A gynecologist also took her in charge, for the nasal and genital tissues are histologically related. The mucous membranes of the nose swell during sexual excitement. This well-known phenomenon gives rise to a theory that the noses of many little girls become sensitive as they turn into young womanhood, and that this makes such girls sniff, lisp or pamper...
Anyone subject to a running nose and swollen sinuses is further subject to rhinological indecision. One school of nose specialists insists on operating on sinuses. Another school, knowing that once a nasal sinus is entered surgically it usually requires long and tedious attention, condemns operations, advises other treatment...
First record of The Prisoner's Song was made twelve years ago for Victor Talking Machine Co. by nasal-voiced Vernon Daihart, Guy Massey's cousin. At that time Nat Shilkret was Victor's musical director. After the recording, Dalhart took the music he had used to the publishers. Last week Shapiro, Bernstein & Co., which still has this manuscript, was positive Massey, not Shilkret, was the author. Guy Massey himself cannot be called in to settle the dispute. He died stone deaf in San Antonio in 1925. Meantime, nobody doubts that Shilkret, now musical director...