Word: nasality
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...under the heading Russia you start the article "Rich with the smells of all the Russias, poorly but warmly clad Soviet legislators," etc. Glad to see mention made of said smells. . . . The Russian atmosphere is saturated with the most nauseating and depressing smell it has been my nasal experience to have witnessed. During many days there in the spring of 1933, I was unable to find a single bird in the stench-saturated atmosphere and found each breath inhaled sickening...
...Been Around (Universal). Rochelle Hudson is the society girl to whom Chester Morris gets engaged before she falls in love with G. P. Huntley, a nasal newcomer whose sallow face and English twang should make him successful as a cad. When Miss Hudson makes the discovery that Huntley has been after her money she marries Morris on the rebound, but makes the mistake of explaining this to him. He walks out. When he comes back, after the usual Continental revelry, Huntley has dropped in for a drink, and Morris is almost through the door again when Miss Hudson swallows something...
Despite valiant efforts of Goron Robertson '36, who has entirely recovered from his recent nasal injury, the Dunster House eleven went down to defeat 14 to 6 yesterday before the power of the Groton School team. The Dunster tally was made on a line plunge by Davis following a series of passes from Robertson to Parker. Winnie Lee suffered a slight contusion on the proboscis...
Jimmie Rodgers, brakeman on the Southern Railway at Meridian, Miss., his birthplace, sang in a nasal, caressing voice each morning as he strolled to work...
This is an exceedingly flattering comment, and one can only suppose that our Mr. Cukor knows whereof he speaks, but to which Boston accent does he refor? Is it the long "a" of Beacon Street, the short "a" of Mattapan, the nasal "a" of Chelsea, or the various assorted inflections that are found from Newton to South Boston and from Milton to the Charlestown Navy Yard...