Word: nasality
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...Nothing!" Famed Italian surgeon Professor Bastianelli, rushed to Premier Mussolini and deftly checked a possible nasal hemorrhage by holding his handkerchief in such a way as to stop the flow of blood partly, without allowing it to back up in the nasal passages. For an instant the Premier reeled, muttered under his breath, "A woman! Fancy, a woman...
...Charles H. T. Townsend, a U. S. entomologist stationed at Itaquaquecetuba, Estado de Sao Paulo, Brazil, during his studies of a muscoid fly called Cephenemyia, the world's fastest aeronaut. Much like a bumblebee in size, color and form, Cephenemyia begins life as a larval parasite in the nasal passages or other head cavities of deer, cattle and other ruminants. To find suitable host animals and catch them and get into their noses and out again, the adult flies must range immense tracts of country at terrific speed. To the human eye, their passing is "of such incredible swiftness...
...others must refrain from seeing it from any angle. "Hatracket" will arise whenever Bostonians find their bucolic boundaries crossed by realism or by candor. And the same race which maintains the limits of Boston culture will frown upon those who jibe at the rouged tip of its saintly nasal organ even as they add more millions to those already heaped upon the altars or Bernar McFadden...
...Manhattan, the miserables of the island, unostentatiously mouch along. Drunks muse on the likelihood of panhandling the price of a finger or two of "likker" (anything with alcoholic content). Drug addicts deviously ponder methods of getting another "shot of morph" (hypodermic injection of morphine), or a "sniff of snow" (nasal inhalation of crystalline cocaine). Homeless and friendless they are for the most part, and normally mindful of their own fuzzy, vague affairs...
...that squeals in a radio, has long had a habitat in the polished cabinets of Victrolas. People found that in radio his mewing could be partly controlled, but in talking machines, even expensive ones, his intrusion was unavoidable. Of course it was not really static-the blaring, nasal voice they heard through the playing of a record-but a sound composed of the hum of the operating motor and the vibrations of the mica diaphragm of the soundbox. Driven to desperate shifts by radio competition, the Victor Talking Machine Co. last year set about eliminating this privy hobgoblin. Last week...