Word: nasally
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Britain Speaks (on every evening at 7:30 E.D.S.T.) is at its best when Novelist-Playwright John Boynton Priestley holds forth. Compact as a beer mug, with a voice as mellow as ancient ale, Priestley has a pronounced Yorkshire accent which falls more pleasantly on American ears than the nasal whinnys of Oxford...
...Salt pork," he continued, "is cheap, common, and easily obtained. It keeps well and is handy to use. It is superior to the usual nasal pack in that it is easier to introduce, and it is more comfortable for the patient, whose only complaint is that the salt causes smarting for a few minutes. . . . Salt pork is easily kept in brine and does not disintegrate. Pork fat does not harbor the parasites (trichinae) that might be present in muscle...
...would take more than this false-note ending to spoil a picture which has in its background Dennie Moore as a gossipy, husband-hunting, goo-goo-eyed mail-order clerk. Cinemactress Moore is mistress of fluttery, nasal, dime-store Manhattanese. It is worth sitting twice through the picture to see her exhibition of modesty conquering candor as she twitters: "I'm going to the washroom-pardon my frankness...