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Latin Delegates to the Conference harkened closely while Senor Calvin Coolidge spoke, joined in the general applause. Latin correspondents sent home many a personal item such as that El Presidente speaks English with a marked, nasal Yankee twang. Many wrote home also the story of how a large, Delegate-filled hotel had hung above its bar pictures of Gerardo Machado, Calvin Coolidge and Charles Augustus Lindbergh. A Cuban policeman saw the pictures, sternly reminded the bartender that the U. S. is dry, rapped out an order. Thereafter the likeness of Col. Lindbergh hung alone...
...Twang! Twang! Twang! An unearthly noise resounded through the Japanese Imperial Palace in Tokyo. Two aged courtiers twanged a bowstring by bending a bow almost double and letting it go suddenly? they were frightening evil spirits away...
Father and mother are about as bad as any vaudeville team you ever saw, and but for the simple homeliness of their lines, which convulse the crowd, they could be dispensed with entirely. Mother has a cross between a Southern drawl and a nasal twang which defles geographical location. Father is as fidgety as your Aunt Emma, and twice as much of an old woman...
...dark of an Irish moon, last week, "soldiers" of the irregular "Irish Republican (Sinn Fein) Army" cut with a twang many a telegraph wire and thereafter indulged in ugly rioting near military barracks in five Irish Free State counties. . . . Next day Mary McSwiney, sister of the Lord Mayor of Cork who in 1920 committed suicide by hungerstriking, made known that these riots had been staged by her Sinn Fein associates as an awful warning to the Dail Eireann. The Dail convened last week with the Sinn Fein Deputies absenting themselves as usual...
...perfectly instructed, and steps which would seem banal if performed in solo seem unbeatable when drummed out in chorus. Their larger sisters make up in voice for their lack of beauty. George Jean Nathan will never award any pretzels to these frauds for looks, but despite the New Yorkese twang to their voices they lend weight to the choruses, and their singing forms and excellent background to the men's voices...