Word: twangs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Davis returned from Oxford with the habit of wearing his handkerchief in his sleeve. Otherwise he was unchanged: he retained his Indiana twang, a dignity Midwestern rather than British. He taught high school for a year in Indiana, went to Manhattan and a $10-a-week job with Adventure magazine, doubled his salary by moving to the New York Times...
...sake of expectant posterity, especially that Soc. major of 2043 writing his thesis on those quaint old days when, even during a war, people had time to sit solemnly around listening to men twang cat-gut, blow straws, and thump on pigskin, it might be well to take leave of my sporadic incumbency of this post by letting off a little steam re music criticism and the state of music in general...
Saturday night at Tom Benton's became a musical institution. His son, T. P. (for Thomas Piacenza) Benton, took up the recorder. Benton put thumb tacks in the hammers of his piano to give it the proper twang. Friends and musicians began to come around to listen, laugh and join in-among them Singers Frank Luther and Carson Robison, Composers Henry Cowell and Carl Ruggles...
...days. Solos at Symphony Hall and the Vice-Presidency of the Glee Club were the high-spots, and the nearest he came to performing before the crowned heads of Europe was a concert in the home of Governor-General Viscount Wellington of Canada. Apparently either no one minded his twang, or else it is a recent development...
Steel struck steel with a bitter twang...