Word: twangs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Heaven is their destination and that class distinction exists behind the pearly gates should make a point of dying in Klerksdorp . . . Yet the enlightened men of Klerksdorp have not assuaged all our post-earthly anxieties. Will St. Peter provide separate counters for applicants for immortality? Will mixed celestial orchestras twang their harps and so destroy in heaven all the good the intelligentsia of Klerksdorp have done on earth? We must not be captious. It is enough for the moment to know that one can see Klerksdorp, and die-like a white...
...slender and mild-mannered man, with a Boston twang and a lively spring to his step. Everybody knew him all right: he was James Bryant Conant, the first Harvard president ever to give a course at the summer school. What happens when a president turns professor? By last week, his students agreed that U.S. faculties would do well to have more men like Teacher Conant...
Down in the White House basement, Harry Truman stood close to the cluster of microphones and faced the hot stare of television cameras. He sounded like the Truman of campaign days as he spoke to the nation in his chatty Missouri twang. "Now, some people are saying . . . that we're in a depression," said the President...
...more than ever an unusual figure -an educator who never claimed to be learned, seldom had time to read, still spoke with a Yankee twang. Old boys and townspeople remembered him jingling to school on snowy days in his horse-drawn sleigh, or shuffling through the autumn leaves with his worn grey cape blowing behind him. He has long kept office at a big desk in the hallway of the main building, where boys can stop and chat between classes...
...started when Cinemactor Randolph Scott and a movie troupe went to Death Valley last fall to shoot scenes for The Walking Hills, and Ranger Stan was assigned as technical adviser. Between takes Stan would haul out his guitar and twang some of the songs he has composed while out on ranger trips. Scott & Co. told him he was great, that he should sell his songs in Hollywood...