Word: twang
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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...
...city. These possibilities were neglected; Untamed becomes a routine, highly improbable love story built around the man Miss Crawford meets on the boat coming north. Except for a song in The Hollywood Revue, it is the first time her voice has been photographed. She sings with a deep, throaty twang; even her mutterings as Bingo, the jungle girl, do not spoil the effect of her natural vivacity and physical outlines. Silliest shot: fistfight between Bingo's sweetheart and another suitor in a ballroom during a fashionable party...
...sweetheart has married in his absence, exclaims: "Then I'm too late!"; at a sister shaking a dying boy to bring him back to life; at the Hollywood conception of a Paris sewer; at a supposedly French priest reciting the Lord's Prayer with an Irish twang. Issued by the producers responsible for the development of the Vitaphone The Redeeming Sin reverts unaccountably to the shakiest adolescence of cinema technique...
...Coolidge's Yankee twang did not hurt his candidacy much in 1924, and I hope, as a life long Republican and sincere admirer of Herbert Hoover, that the election of 1928 will not be won or lost because of "New Yorkese...
...surprised, last week, when Gov. Flem D. Sampson made "Mel" Traylor a Colonel of the National Guard, named him an aide-de-camp on his personal staff. Chicago claims Banker Traylor, but the South hasn't given him up. After 17 years of hearing the mid-western twang, the drawl of Kentucky and Texas still lingers in his speech...