Word: nasally
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Virus-laden washings from the nasal secretions of cold sufferers have been dropped into the noses of hundreds of British volunteers. But even with massive doses, only 55% of the willing guinea pigs got colds...
...some old gags a new gloss; and masquerading as an immigrant student in one of Schoolmarm Mayo's naturalization classes, he gets off an excellent range of muddled European accents. Brightest piece of invention: a bit of hot-weather Americana, in which the sound track picks up the nasal lovemaking of a Brooklyn couple in the moonlit shadows of Jones Beach...
...experts gave Michael adrenaline packs, calcium muscular injections, diathermy; they stuffed paraffin up his nose, cauterized his nasal membranes, gave him nose & ear drops, hundreds of tablets. Chiropractor Lester Jelfs, who attributed the sneezing to a "nerve impingement" in Michael's spine, managed to reduce the sneezes to a mere 240 per hour by vigorous adjustment. But Michael had hardly left the chiropractor's office before the sneeze rate soared again. Hypnotist Norman Waters sent Michael into a deep trance and intoned: "You are not going to sneeze. When I snap my fingers you will wake...
Michigan's Clare Hoffman lifted a nasal voice from the Republican side. "Do not be too much concerned about these jobs, you Democrats," he mocked, "be cause in Michigan and ultimately in the nation these jobs are not going to be given to Democrats; they are going to the people named by the C.I.O. boys...
...Lisa Kirk is the only variety show soubbrette I ever heard who realizes that the vocal chords and not the nasal passages are the proper origins for sounds emanating from female vocalists. If thirty entertaining minutes out of a whole week's effort can be interpreted as a good sign, there still may be hope for radio...