Word: drawl
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...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...
After another prayer Michigan's Representative Louis C. Rabaut, to whose small, sweet tenor voice Joe Byrns had liked to listen, sang Absent and Thy Will Be Done. Leaning heavily on the rostrum, Speaker Bankhead declared in his soft Alabama drawl: "There were so tempered in the heart and soul of Joe Byrns elements of tolerance, patience and sympathy that he had drawn to him the ungrudging regard and affection of all men who came within the radius of his genial influence." Stumbling through his speech, Minority Leader Snell observed: "No worthier nor more dauntless friend nor foe than...
...gadfly of successive Republican Administrations. Equipped with a deep, mellow drawl, a sharp Southern wit, the tall, loose-jointed Mississippian drew a laugh, scored a hit almost every time he rose to tease, tweak, twit and torment the party in power...