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...settings. Douglas Fairbanks carries it off as nearly in his inimitable manner as he can manage amid the encumbrances of modernity. He swings himself around a good deal on poles and window ledges. His voice, entirely different from his radio tones of two years ago, has the drawling, nasal twang that is the mode among the smart people who are his friends offstage, but that has not quite the ring of naturalness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Jan. 5, 1931 | 1/5/1931 | See Source »

...common cold. He said he had seen it under his microscope, a spherical germ occurring in pairs and sometimes in rows. After he had isolated it he tested it out on healthy humans by spraying a culture into their noses. In 24 hours they would develop strong nasal colds. A vaccine made from the culture and injected under their skins "would break up the cold in short order...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Cold Germ? | 6/23/1930 | See Source »

...nasal whine of power whips a new universe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Bridge-Builder | 4/14/1930 | See Source »

...writer has been often annoyed, and frequently amused at what seems to be a favorite indoor sport of the French people. At meal times in the restaurants and hotels at table, it seems to be a universal custom for some Frenchman to blow a loud blast upon his nasal appendage (regularly called "bugle" in the United States...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Dec. 16, 1929 | 12/16/1929 | See Source »

...Inaccurate. The Dawes voice, high, thin, nasal, is incapable of "roaring...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Below the Belt! | 7/29/1929 | See Source »

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