Word: twangs
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After three hours, only Mattie Lou and husky, intense Sonya Rodolfo, 14, of Chicago, were left. The crowd rooted impartially for both. They liked Mattie Lou's "gittar" twang and the lickety-split way she bobbed up, spelled a word. Sonya, entering the contest for the first time, is a native of the Philippines...
...Lisp. Congressman Mundt was not entirely satisfied himself with the OIC's Voice of America. But he was not willing to cut its throat because of a "faulty lisp or a foreign accent." Said he: "Let us rather guide it to make certain it develops the sturdy American twang...
...Yankee Twang. Captain Blackford, meanwhile, had fought at Bull Run, bivouacked along the Rappahannock, marched to the Confederacy's high-water mark at Gettysburg and returned with the ebbing tide. In victory or defeat, he decided, Pennsylvania held no charms for a Virginian. "Never in my life have I seen so many ugly women." Furthermore, the "men, women and children are all afflicted with a yankee twang...
...need any polls to show him that times were tough. He politicked like mad. Boss Frank Hague of New Jersey dropped by, and so did ex-Price Boss Chester Bowles, who offered all his help. National Chairman Bob Hannegan talked strategy, then hopped off for Los Angeles to twang a campaign theme. One Hannegan chord: the G.O.P. is "holding the picket line in a strike of big business against the consumer...
Philosopher in Twang. Even when receiving old friends and pupils like Philosophers Irwin Edman and Sidney Hook, shy John Dewey shuffles his slippers, pulls at his Groucho Marx mustache, or musses his yellowing white hair in embarrassment. He speaks hesitantly in a soft Vermont twang, and is apt to preface his thoughts with a "seems like. . . ." (Says he: "My ancestry is free from all blemish. All my forefathers* earned an honest living as farmers, wheelwrights and coopers. I was absolutely the first one in seven generations to fall from grace...