Word: drawl
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...England puritanism. In fact, it takes Director Mitchell Leisen, Paramount's special maestro of the improbable, another full reel to simmer their problems down to a happy ending. Most improbable bit: "Deacon" Henry Hull's rich mint-julep accent served up as a deep-dish Yankee drawl...
...White Sox and who comes up to the plate, sometimes limping, as if he had been called on to move a locomotive with a crowbar. The name of this apparition is Lucius Benjamin ("Luke") Appling. Droopy Luke spits a casual stream of tobacco juice, chats in a friendly Southern drawl with the umpire and opposing catcher, and usually complains that he is feeling just terrible. His symptoms may range from an upset stomach to "double vision." Once after a ferryboat ride, he dolefully announced he was seasick...
Tall, shapely Brenda Allen had just about everything a girl needed to become a successful prostitute. A teetotaler with a hint of Southern drawl, she had a mind like a cash register, and she hadn't been in love since she was 21 (about 15 years ago by latest reckoning). For all of that, Brenda had a little trouble getting along. Every year or so she found herself in a brush with the law for practicing her profession...
...Mississippi drawl of Senator Eastland spread through the committee room. Said Eastland to Baldwin, using no initials: "You goddam son of a bitch...
Georgia-born Reporter Johnson, 44, whose drawl and easygoing manner hide a bulldog tenacity, was neither a crime specialist nor an I-cover-the-waterfront expert when he started. He was a general-assignment man who had served the Sun for 20 years, on everything from the burning of the Morro Castle to the storming of Okinawa. In a 1946 series on hijacking, he had picked up some waterfront contacts. Using them, he started his digging into waterfront crime...