Word: drawl
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...undersigned members of the crew, are afraid to go to sea with Mr. Adams." Last week Mr. Adams, a mild-looking man of 39 with a Southern drawl, arrived in Manhattan, was arrested and taken before a U. S. Commissioner. He explained: "I shot the man because I was in terror -mortal terror, a condition I was never in during the War. I fired one shot and then another not knowing the first had hit him in the head." Mr. Adams was held without bail on a charge of murder on the high seas...
Today Ogden Mills is no longer the aggressive, arrogant young man who tried to bulldoze his House colleagues with scorching sarcasm delivered with a high nasal drawl. He has grown affable, friendly, almost democratic. He listens politely to other people's views and opinions, is ready to accept their suggestions. Age has mellowed him, changed enemies to friends...
...years ago. There he has a big rambling white house of early American architecture, 100 pleasant acres of woods and orchards. He does not care much for social life, stays up late, reading. He is married, has no children. He speaks slowly, approaches a drawl, grins frequently...
Drop in at the Ministry, pop several questions and some bored but confident young Laborite will drawl, "America is on the Dole, not England...
...rope and drags him round the field as western ranchers used to drag a horse-thief when they caught one. Will Rogers' deliberate awkwardness, his sham ble, mock shyness and ability on horse back, are all ideal for the role, and it does not matter that his drawl is Oklahoma in stead of Connecticut. His personality and his multifarious activities have made him by this time, even to Americans, a figure symbolic of American ism. Next best part : dignified old William Farnum, the hero of many a two-fisted thriller some ten years ago, as King Arthur...