Word: nasality
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...slender, lustrous-eyed young woman, appearing on Manhattan's Town Hall stage one night last week, completely fascinated an audience which was unable to understand a single word she sang. She was Sarah Osnath-Halevy, a Yemenite from Palestine. By singers' standards her husky nasal voice was unimportant. But Sarah Osnath-Halevy does not pretend to formal singing any more than she does to conventional dancing. She is an interpreter of folk songs from her corner of the world. Those she presented last week were Persian, Arabian, Yemenite, Schabazy, Sephardic, Felahi. Whatever they were she made them invariably...
...Little Marion Parker, The Wreck of the Shenandoah, The Sinking of the Vestris. Last month, day after Will Rogers and Wiley Post crashed in Alaska, Songwriter Freddie Rose (Red Hot Mamma) whipped out pieces on that disaster, passed them on to Ray Whitley, a onetime rancher who has a nasal voice, plays his own guitar accompaniments, affects a ten-gallon hat and spurs. Whitley sang the tragic songs for Decca Records. Inc., which last week reported a sale of over 5,000 copies. On one side of the disk was The Last Flight of Wiley Post. Excerpts...
...Lippmann and Nicholas Murray Butler, Colonel House and Hiram Johnson, Sir Ronald Lindsay and Norman Thomas, Alice Longworth and Mrs. August Belmont, Joseph H. Choate Jr. and Senator La Follette, the President's mother and Mrs. Eugene Meyer, Senator Vandenberg and Isabella Greenway, soft-spoken Spanish Americans and nasal-twanged Yankees, stockbrokers who dwell on Long Island and politicians who abominate them. All of them had reason for being there...
...liquid diet was administered through a nasal catheter for two months. It consisted of four coddled eggs, one pint of milk, one pint of cream, the juice of six oranges, cooked cereal, thin custard, vegetable soup and brewers' yeast. After the fever subsided, one-half ounce of cod liver oil was added. She gained weight so rapidly that the caloric value had to be reduced. When swallowing returned, the catheter was placed in her mouth. She still drinks in this manner, lying on her back with her head turned to the side...
...across the nation rolled the nasal, back-country accents of the "Kingfish." "It has been publicly announced that the White House orders of the Roosevelt Administration have declared a war." cried he. "The lately-lamented, pampered, ex-Crown Prince, General Hugh S. Johnson, one of those satellites loaned by Wall Street to run the Government . . . was apparently selected to make the lead-off speech. . . . What is the trouble with this Administration? . . . They think that Huey Long is the cause of all their worry. They go gunning for me, but am I the cause of their misery? Well, they are like...