Word: twangs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Every morning but Sunday at 5:25 the notoriously noxious air of St. Louis is purified by the natural twang of real mountaineer goings on. These upcountry proceedings continue for an hour over CBS Station KMOX, a 50,000-watter with some 2,500.000 steady listeners. They emanate from a radio group known as Cousin Emmy and Her Kin Folks. There is square-dance music, a female duo singing something like Back in the Saddle Again, a comedy rube act, a "Western instrumental trio," and Cousin Emmy, who best describes the rest of the show: "First I hits...
...year later he was wearing a barrister's white peruke in London. At 55 he had begun a new career. Judges winced at first at his "unpleasant American twang." Ten years later he was acclaimed as "the most famous advocate at the English...
Glider Crackup. Suddenly our pilot reached up, hesitated a fraction of a second, then smacked the tow release lever. With a twang like a snapped harp string, the long white towing cable vanished. The pounding thunder of air dropped to a murmur...
...wrote the news, and fewer still who broadcast it, could resist the purple technique of dire warnings, manic-depressive cycles, sweeping prognostications. Many a news commentator offered his audience little more than a 15-minute nervous breakdown. Not so Elmer Davis. His voice was calm, incisive, with a Hoosier twang as reassuring as Thanksgiving, as shrewd as a small-town banker. (He did not at once recognize his voice's value, offered to take speaking lessons; CBS officials fortunately knew better.) He never interpreted, colored or predicted: the grist from his mill was fact, ground fine and digestible, sieved...
...people at 9:45 p.m., C.W.T. This was what the U.S. wanted: there are lots of Administrators, Czars and such in Washington, and other agencies whose muddle is like OWI's-but in all the U.S. there is only one voice on the radio with that dry, reassuring twang...