Word: nasality
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...Reynolds and Washington's Elyot Grammer. Absent was Pennsylvania's Senator Davis, whose right to sit has been questioned since his indictment in connection with the Moose lottery (TIME, Aug. 29; Oct. 10). His wife explained that he had gone to Battle Creek, Mich, for a minor nasal operation...
...Louis, on the campus of Washington University, there was much talk of inferiority complexes, much quoting of the nasal rodomontades of big-nosed Cyrano de Bergerac. A student named Theodore Hofman, 24, had killed himself. Wrote...
Died. Edgar Speyer, 69, banker, onetime board chairman of the Underground Electric Railways Co. of London, Ltd., brother of Wall Street's famed James ("Jimmie") Speyer; of a hemorrhage following a nasal operation; in Berlin. Of German parentage, he became a British subject and banker, was made a baronet and Privy Councillor. During the War he was accused of trading with the enemy, and though denying the charges, requested that his honors be revoked. After the War he was deprived of British citizenship, retired to Manhattan. His wife, Leonora Speyer, won the Pulitzer Prize for poetry...
Professor Roger's proposition is therefore most significant. It would afford a splendid source of education for many, while to others it would offer welcome relief from the nasal intonation of advertising blurbs. But if the suggestion is adopted, great care must be taken lest it, too, become barren of worth. Its operation should be placed in the hands of a non-political board; its benefits should not be confined to the small minority who possess short-wave receivers; and programs should be so arranged as not to become stereotyped and unpalatable...
...Dublin schoolmasters last week began a campaign to have all talking pictures made in Gaelic. Said Headmaster O'Casey: "It is bad enough when a boy acknowledges an order with the reply, 'Okay, chief,' but imagine the position of a headmistress who is addressed in a nasal drawl with the words, 'Okay, baby...