Word: twang
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With the daily press almost unanimous in its adulation of the leaders of the present Golden Age, and the journals of opinion confining themselves to an occasional quip about the White House twang or Countess Karolyi, the surviving liberals have nothing to do but sit back until the national course of events brings Shadwell's castle tumbling about his ears...
...leetle hour, I mek you 'appy," he promises his old friend,--to attempt to reproduce Alan Mowbray's quaint dialect with its compound of American, a plausible Spanish accent, and the twang of Oxford English. There is the mortgage. Pancho robs a bank and pays it. One or two individuals insist in getting in the way. Pancho's confrere, Pedre, points firearms at them. There is the offensive and superfluous husband. Pancho shoots him personally. "There! What you say, my frien'?" Are you not 'appy...
Some Baptist women wondered whether their church was entirely fortunate. Certainly young Mr. Fosdick was nothing to look at ?his face was paunchy, his black knitted* hair gave an unkempt appearance. His voice, too, retained the flat tones, the slightly nasal twang of upstate New York. There was nothing about his person suggesting the aesthete. These, however, were trifles. There were more serious causes of offence?for example, he was perpetually stepping on the toes of U. S. sentimentality. And he often refused to come to the .telephone when he had retired to his study. But much was forgiven...
...late, every night, in the back rooms of cafes, in the smoky corners of third-string night clubs, till their keys are yellow, and their tone is as hard as peroxided hair. Gershwin's fingers found a curious music in them. He made it hump along with a twang and a shuffle, hunch its. shoulders and lick its lips. Diners applauded. "What's the name of that tune, honey?" asked a lady of Gershwin one night...
Romola. There was a general readjusting of critical values after the advent of Romola. It began to be admitted publicly, and by great men, that Lillian Gish is the best of all the picture actresses. True, she does not twang the public heart strings as loudly and as often as Gloria Swanson. Yet she has undoubtedly the most distinguished record of the sisterhood?Birth of a Nation, Broken Blossoms, Way Down East, Orphans of the Storm, The White Sister. There are those who say that, with David W. Griffith and Charles Chaplin, she completes the trio of the only true...