Word: twanging
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...Delta at the University of Oklahoma pledged him. That made no difference; the brothers hoped to tame their alfalfa cowboy. In the meantime, he went to work leading a college orchestra. That got him three meals day low grades, and a reputation for having a singing voice with a twang to it. In spite of the Delta, he remained a hill-billy...
...cultivated voice. It carried a New England twang. Senator Sherman Minton of Indiana, lolling in the presiding officer's chair, peered toward the rear of the Chamber. A stocky man with a large flat face and slightly twisted nose was standing at a desk. Mr. Minton, who went to the Senate only last January, had never seen the gentleman open his mouth before except 1) to take a chew of Five Brothers* and squirt tobacco juice at the spittoon beside his chair; 2) to pass the time of day with one of his strolling colleagues; 3) to vote...
...Been Around (Universal). Rochelle Hudson is the society girl to whom Chester Morris gets engaged before she falls in love with G. P. Huntley, a nasal newcomer whose sallow face and English twang should make him successful as a cad. When Miss Hudson makes the discovery that Huntley has been after her money she marries Morris on the rebound, but makes the mistake of explaining this to him. He walks out. When he comes back, after the usual Continental revelry, Huntley has dropped in for a drink, and Morris is almost through the door again when Miss Hudson swallows something...
...president of Chicago's second biggest bank, the First National (present assets $643,000,000), and lived in a 14-room house on Barry Ave. All Mel Traylor carried from a crude Kentucky boyhood to fame & fortune in Chicago was a sinewy physique, a permanent tan, a slight twang...
...soft white paper, carried with pomp by an Imperial Messenger into the infant's presence. Same day Japan's Crown Prince will get his first bath, a rite of such antiquity that all its meanings are no longer known. While the babe is washed attendants will twang on bow strings as sages seated behind a screen read in loud and awful tones eloquent passages from ancient books...