Word: drawl
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...offers," said Martin in his customary Missouri drawl, "complete protection with a minimum of weight and bulk...
...monickered Hearst Sports Columnist Martene Windsor ("Bill") Corum, 47, will handle pre-game color and post-game roundups. Bill, who talks in a deep Missouri drawl, sticks strictly to sport lingo. A discovery of famed Hearst Columnist Arthur Brisbane, he is well versed in dishing up color, and his syndicated daily sport column is a stand-by to U.S. fans...
...general store. He used to end a local broadcast with a "God bless you one and all." Once, he omitted the tag line and received ten indignant letters from as many old ladies. Washington newsmen believe that it was Henry Ford himself who picked Godwin's raspy drawl to supplant William J. Cameron (TIME, Feb. 2) as the Voice of Ford...
...speech pleasantly colored by a tinge of Southern drawl, Harvard's contribution to the profession of Pierrot is Dan M. Pearce '42, of Dunster House and Ripley, Tennessee, whose life has revolved in and around show business for just about as long as he can remember...
McConnell is a businessman and talks businessman's language in a quiet, persuasive drawl. He was born 52 years ago on a Colorado ranch, rode the range as a boy, became a mining engineer. Later he became a partner in a New York Stock Exchange firm, organized and managed Mayflower Associates, Inc., one of the most successful investment trusts ever operated in the U.S. Now retired, he lives on a 600-acre farm in fashionable, horsey Middleburg, Va. Commuting the 43 miles to his Washington office, he drives 40 miles an hour. Says he: "What kind...