Word: drawl
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...commanded all U. S. subchasers in European waters. He married his cousin, is childless. Ashore he putters around a flower garden, smacks over a dish of boned shad, keeps a voluminous scrap book. Afloat he is a strict but just disciplinarian. He talks in a low, melodious drawl, never raising his voice to match his temper. Slim of stature, smiling of face, he gets his nickname from his sandy red hair, his apple cheeks. He believes ardently in big guns and big navies but does not tactlessly preach his belief from public platforms out of working hours...
This reviewer, to be perfectly fair, must admit to a certain prejudice against actresses whose fame seems to rest on a weary drawl and a manner that frankly indicates that the world is too much with us. Such are Ruth Chatterton and Jane Cowl. After watching the former suffer the grossness that is masculinity (withal patiently) through two or three films, one suddenly revolts at the eternal repetition. The latter, while a less interesting personality, is not so monotonous. This brings us to the question of just what is acting? Current drama supports two kinds of actors. The first...
Ruth Chatterton's tough, hangdog look, her husky refined drawl ending on a raised note, go well with the foreverandever emotions, too poignant for tears, as one gentleman to another. She can say: "I love you more than anything on earth" and sound as though she might mean it. She can say: "Please kiss me into needing you" without making the customers scowl. George Brent's underacting goes well with Miss Chatterton's. He is shown as a white man because he will not marry an unmarried girl with money, but cinemorality impels him to want...
...schoolmasters last week began a campaign to have all talking pictures made in Gaelic. Said Headmaster O'Casey: "It is bad enough when a boy acknowledges an order with the reply, 'Okay, chief,' but imagine the position of a headmistress who is addressed in a nasal drawl with the words, 'Okay, baby...
...cotton gin than he did doing chores. Moving from the practice of law in Greensboro, N. C. to Reynolds' assistant general counselship, he dropped the assistant portion of the title in 1921, added a vice-presidency in 1925. Now 47, he conceals beneath a soft North Carolina drawl a hair-trigger mind and a hair-splitting passion for accuracy in both spoken and written word...