Word: nasality
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Baiting such Democrats as stayed to hear him, Senator Walsh of well-protected Massachusetts said he was for a "scientific" tariff. Senators Dill and Jones begged protection for the Washington shingle industry. Senator Bruce bumbled about the Baltimore straw hat trade. Small-eyed Senator Watson of Indiana and nasal Senator Harrison of Mississippi, wrangled interminably over Republican and Democratic tariff statements and records...
Latin Delegates to the Conference harkened closely while Senor Calvin Coolidge spoke, joined in the general applause. Latin correspondents sent home many a personal item such as that El Presidente speaks English with a marked, nasal Yankee twang. Many wrote home also the story of how a large, Delegate-filled hotel had hung above its bar pictures of Gerardo Machado, Calvin Coolidge and Charles Augustus Lindbergh. A Cuban policeman saw the pictures, sternly reminded the bartender that the U. S. is dry, rapped out an order. Thereafter the likeness of Col. Lindbergh hung alone...
...longer what it was. No longer does the outcome depend on military strength and strategy; no longer is the civilian reasonably safe to carry on for posterity. Science, especially chemistry and aviation, has translated the next war into terms of universal destruction. . . . "In man slight and transitory nasal irritation is appreciable after an exposure of five minutes to as little as one part of diphenyl-chloroarsine in two hundred million parts of air. ... A concentration of one part in ten million will probably incapacitate a man within a minute from the pain and distress, and nausea and vomiting accompanying...
Adenoids are an overgrowth of the glandular tissue above the soft palate and back of the nasal passages. They can be felt by sticking the forefinger into the adenoidal individual's mouth and hooking the first phalanx of the finger over his soft palate. The finger will come out covered with blood, for the adenoids bleed very easily...
...many an haut parleur.† Said he: "My name, la marque Poiret, has been damaged, my art thwarted, by American women who have not used discretion in buying or copying my creations. . . . Each robe Poiret is meant, need I say it, for one certain type of woman. Mais . . . [with nasal protest] les dames Américaines, what do they do? Alas! Too often an American woman of one kind buys in their shops a Poiret gown which is not for her. . . ." Many who listened sympathized; but wondered at what the great Poiret was driving. Of course French folk...