Word: twangs
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...mildly dirty stories, and I loved her from then onwards." Once, her teacher led her to a piano, put a piece of paper under the strings, and struck a chord. "That," she said, "is what your voice sounds like." Gertie worked hard to get rid of her cockney twang. On a Sunday excursion to Brighton, she put a penny in a fortune-telling machine. The pink card she got told her her fate: A star danced, And you were born...
While calling for further investigation of the matter, Lepeshinskaya contrived a tactful twang of the party line. "Laughter and gaiety also improve health," she said. "Our country is the happiest in the world. Statistics show that the average length of human life in the Soviet Union is the greatest in the world. The life of the Soviet people flowers under the sun of the Stalin Constitution...
...California, graduated from Cornell. This geographic spread has given Stark a "neutral" accent that can't be easily identified with any region of the U.S. Network executives have a theory that national audiences are distracted by such regional characteristics as the broad "a" of New England, the twang of the far West, the drawl of the South. Much better, for their purpose, is a man like Stark who sounds as if he came from nowhere and everywhere...
Frank Learoyd Boyden of Deerfield Academy, Deerfield, Mass., is something of a phenomenon in U.S. education. He is a wiry little man of 72 who speaks with a Yankee twang, likes to drive a horse & buggy, and claims to know very little about his profession ("I was never tied up with theories"). But Frank Boyden may well be the most famous and beloved headmaster in the nation. He calls himself "a" country sort of person who likes boys...
Spending his honeymoon with Yolanda Donlan (Mrs. Drake) on a farm in England, Fairbanks plays the dude. He continually argues with a cynical caretaker, whose Aroostook twang is painfully out of place, and with a handyman who can never finish a job. This too typical domestic scene is complemented by giggles from Yo-Yo (Yolanda, an actress who should have been left on the string) and snide marriage-night remarks from Drake...