Word: twangs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...newspaperman. Twice president of the Detroit Guild, smart negotiator of Guild contracts on two of Detroit's three papers, he is assistant city editor of the Detroit Times (though frequently out on assignment as one of the paper's best reporters). A six-footer, with a genial twang acquired through years of telephoning to city editors, his chief interest outside news and the Guild is his 120-acre farm near Detroit. He drilled its well himself, is now building a dock on a small lake where he catches pan fish and hunts ducks. More important, the election meant...
...rare, melodious twang was heard this week on U.S. airwaves. The twangs came from an instrument which legend says was invented by a son of Methuselah-the lute, an instrument resembling an archaic mandolin. Rare too was the young lutanist who plunk-a-plunked and sang ballads on an NBC Sunday sustainer. Richard Dyer-Bennet, 28-year-old minstrel, is probably the only U.S. radio entertainer listed in Burke's Peerage...
...halls and saw very proper classical shows. Despite tight restrictions on liquor sales, they managed to find a nip here & there. They wandered into shops and had a fine time trying to make the shopkeepers (who had learned the broad English words of the British) catch onto the American twang...
Anno 1670, not far from Cirencester, was an apparition: being demanded, whether a good spirit or a bad? returned no answer, but disappeared with a curious perfume and most melodious twang. Mr. W. Lilly believes it was a fairy...
...note that you don't like Willkie's "slurred syllables" and "Indiana twang...