Word: drawl
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...observations which might be tedious in another play, such as those on the basic goodness of human nature and the limitless folly of war, are saved in this one through having them spoken by an extremely typical American with a rasping nasal drawl and a fondness for clinches. Heroics, chivalry, and faith are so out of place in this American handyman with his pack of dancing girls, that they come with the freshness of surprise...
...haired onetime amateur prizefighter who- four years ago won the seat of the late Dwight Morrow of New Jersey. His job goes to William Henry Smathers, a tall, lanky lawyer, onetime Assistant State Attorney General, who in the U. S. Senate will speak for New Jersey in a Southern drawl, acquired in his native North Carolina. Third Republican to drop out was Rhode Island's rich, conservative Jesse H. Metcalf, who lost to rich, scholarly Theodore Francis Green, lawyer and banker, close friend of Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes. Mr. Green was 30 years in politics before being elected...
...Huey Long," says Gene Talmadge in his vaudeville-hill billy drawl, "was a mighty smart man. He and I were mighty good friends." That Georgia Governor and Louisiana Senator had made a deal "to stop Roosevelt" before Long's death, Talmadge admits. The extent and degree to which Gene Talmadge possesses Huey Long's talents is a subject for observers to debate and time to determine. But certain it is that the Governor of Georgia hates the New Deal as bitterly as the one-time Governor of Louisiana ever...
...radio show. For his opening program from Hollywood, California's De Mille presented handsome Clark Gable and long-legged Marlene Dietrich, in a radio version of the six-year-old cinema Morocco. Miss Dietrich, whose voice is not her most celebrated asset, fascinated listeners with a mysterious whispered drawl. The Gable personality, currently one of the most popular at U. S. cinema boxoffices, registered more favorably n the air. Since then, on a talent budget whose maximum is said to be $15,000 a week, Lux has favored the listeners of the country with an hour of high-priced...
...picture introduces three new screen personalities. One is Frances Farmer. Two is a radio comedian billed as Bob ("Bazooka") Burns who, from a face vaguely reminiscent of onetime Heavyweight Champion Jess Willard's, launches wisecracks in a drawl vaguely reminiscent of Will Rogers'. Three is a female edition of Joe E. Brown named Martha Raye whose enthusiastic display of her most distressing facial characteristic will doubtless endear her to that large portion of the cinema public which finds physical abnormalities funny. Good songs: Empty Saddles, I'm an Old Cow Hand from the Rio Grande...