Word: twangs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Benny radio program a few years ago who drawled, "Sor-ry, but y'can't have the telegram 'thout signin'...comp'ny reg'lations y'know." He nasalizes similar lines as the psychopathic villain in the slight chiller now filling the Copley Theatre. The down-easter with the Maine twang is, in blunt fact, "Little Brown Jug's" sole claim to a dubious fame...
From there on the little old man attaches himself to the "murder" and her daughter and oppresses them with his assumed liberties until he comes to consider himself the family's sole protector against suitors and snoopers. The Maine twang soon palls on the audience, however, and there is little else entertaining in the stock characters and weak plot of "Little Brown...
...bombinate about Harry. Few had any criticism of Joseph Grew, a trained and tried career diplomat. But the big-money backgrounds of Businessmen Clayton and Rockefeller offered demagogues (and the left-wing press) a rare opportunity to orate against Wall Street. Anti-New Dealers saw a free chance to twang Poet MacLeish over the head with his own lyre...
...Harry Truman is the man in the grey suit, usually double-breasted. His college education consists of a brief spell at the Kansas City School of Law. He is an inconspicuous man with thin lips, steel-rimmed glasses, flatly combed grey hair, and a flat, not unpleasant Missouri twang...
...political history. It was uncountable; no stadium could have held it; the estimates ranged as high as 500,000 and none less than 200,000.* To that crowd Wendell Willkie made a great, an eloquent-and an unpolitical-speech. It was poorly delivered; his word-slurring, Hoosier-twang delivery was a shock to citizens used to the sophisticated fluency of Mr. Roosevelt's radio voice. But that speech was the expression of a good American's will to freedom-the keystone of his character, and the root of his antipathy to the New Deal...