Word: drawl
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...years ago. There he has a big rambling white house of early American architecture, 100 pleasant acres of woods and orchards. He does not care much for social life, stays up late, reading. He is married, has no children. He speaks slowly, approaches a drawl, grins frequently...
Drop in at the Ministry, pop several questions and some bored but confident young Laborite will drawl, "America is on the Dole, not England...
...rope and drags him round the field as western ranchers used to drag a horse-thief when they caught one. Will Rogers' deliberate awkwardness, his sham ble, mock shyness and ability on horse back, are all ideal for the role, and it does not matter that his drawl is Oklahoma in stead of Connecticut. His personality and his multifarious activities have made him by this time, even to Americans, a figure symbolic of American ism. Next best part : dignified old William Farnum, the hero of many a two-fisted thriller some ten years ago, as King Arthur...
After being permitted to glimpse the inner office of the young financial genius (as indicated, Douglas in plain clothes) and being impressed by large transactions in stock sales made through a selection of innumerable telephones which surround the man, we watch Miss Daniels drawl her way into the sactum sanctorum in order to win a bet. The young wizard is properly upset and so is the financial world. The woman plays with the inexperienced man. The man ends up by following her on board a curious trans-Atlantic liner. A travelling library on the subject of amours, Douglas' valet, mixes...
...notorious Oxford accent receives a double-barrelled crack from the two writers. To their critical eyes, the distorted and emasculated Oxonian drawl is readily imitated by those who would ape their betters. The snippishness of the typical don has had a wide effect in debasing the English speech...