Word: drawl
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Young man," said he, "could you tell me what you believe to be the significance of the white whale in Moby Dick?" The young man seemed to ponder the question very earnestly and after a few moments he looked up at the professor and replied in a mid-western drawl, "Well, sir, it always struck me that it was just a plain whale...
...records ($7.50) of an interview made for its files by Mencken and the Baltimore Sun's Donald H. Kirkley Sr. Taped in June 1948, only five months before a stroke ended his career, the interview is the only record that remains of the Baltimore sage's raspy drawl, filtered as usual through a cold cigar...
...epic. And this epic was achieved by an act of singular artistic courage. At the serious risk of losing the customer's interest-and with it the $5,000.000 production cost of the picture -Director Stevens slowed the pace of his story down to a deep-Texas drawl. With a more than Homeric lentor. almost as though it were inching along in one of those venerable jalopies that still wheeze across the hot pink flats between El Paso and San Antonio, the camera moves for almost 3½ hours through what at first appears to be a flat...
...boosters for the vice-presidential nomination). Two presidential primaries showed clearly how the New Hampshire housewife felt about Kefauver. Professional Southern politicians dislike him intensely-but even they admit that Southern voters by the thousands are likely to fall hard for Kefauver's poor-mouthed Southern drawl...
...presidential nomination. But he is relatively young, and there are other years and other elections. The chances are good that Iowa farmers, New Hampshire lumberjacks and California avocado growers will some day be confronted again by the tall man with the outstretched right hand and the quiet drawl: "Ah'm Estes Kefauver. Ah'm running for President and Ah need your...