Word: twangs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...friends call him, is a reserved, blue-eyed boss who thinks fast, talks slow and never wastes his time pounding the desk. Slightly jowly, with a pleasant smile, he has neither bombast nor bulk (he is 5 ft. 10 in., 175 lbs.). He talks with a mild Midwest twang, walks with a slight stoop as if bucking a breeze. Both his tie and his crop of snow-white hair are usually a little askew, but his mind is as precise as an engineer's slipstick...
...year ago last summer, they worked up a bouncy little tune for Bob Hope to twang to Jane Russell while leading a covered-wagon train in a western called The Paleface. Record companies recorded it, then held back on it, as usual, until about ten to twelve weeks before the movie was due for release. Last September the record companies began to let it spin. By last week, Dinah Shore's record of Buttons and Bows was No. 1 on the hit parade. It was just the songwriters' good fortune that by the time their tune finally came...
...with love, and the idealistic young playwright with admiration. Six hours later, when the show seems to be a flop, the playwright is denounced as the Arch Fiend. But when the early morning papers dub it a potential hit, the hatchets are put away and the harps begin to twang again...
...homespun diplomat with a New Hampshire twang, portly "Whit" Whittemore milked cows as a boy in Pembroke, later tried railroading, sat on the New Hampshire tax commission, and ran. a lumber business. In 1929 he joined the Boston & Maine Railroad, became assistant to the president...
...session; the State of the Union message last January; this year's Jackson Day dinner speech and the civil-rights message. There was no real difference between what these messages said and what a generation of New Dealers had said before. But in Mr. Truman's monotonous twang and Clifford's primer sentences, they just sounded dull. And after the speeches were made, nothing ever seemed to happen...