Word: drawl
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Within the next three months it is possible that an English drawl may come rippling over the ocean with a "Hello--are you there?", to be answered by a crisp Vermont "Yes?" For George of Buckingham and Windsor, and Calvin of Washington and Plymouth are to inaugurate the transatlantic telephone service by what the Associated Press calls a "short conversation". And already the curious are wondering what will be the topic of conversation. Whatever it is it will prove food for columnists and Will Rogers; kings and presidents don't give each other a ring every...
Father and mother are about as bad as any vaudeville team you ever saw, and but for the simple homeliness of their lines, which convulse the crowd, they could be dispensed with entirely. Mother has a cross between a Southern drawl and a nasal twang which defles geographical location. Father is as fidgety as your Aunt Emma, and twice as much of an old woman...
...Willard Mack, dean of melodramatists. Hokum it is, and oldfashioned, but, none the less, it keeps the onlooker clutching, crinkling his program throughout. Beth Merrill, who looks like Jeanne Eagels, plays the gawky pride of the prairies, rolls out her pointed conversation with a pleasant, if not authentic, Western drawl. In fact, the entire cast creates effective illusion. If the West is not like that, it ought to be. Best and most remarkable of all is Impresario Belasco's staging. A little thing like the creation of the firmaments is, to him, child's play. Alexander Woollcott: "Then...
...stood out in the Crimson line and backfield respectively, are also on the doctor's list but should be in uniform again by Thursday. Both were badly battered in the course of the game and French also received a severe blow on the head which finally forced his with drawl from action...
...whose speech is redolent of Buckingham Palace. Until the recent advent of the new naturalism of the theatre (low voice, mumbled words, incoherent murmurs), farm girls were quite likely to burst forth in ducal accents. Any person recognizing an r as something more than an opportunity for a drawl was looked upon as distinctly provincial. Thanks to the school of which the Messrs. O'Neil and Stallings are the chief exponents, theatrical language has lately come to have more or less close connections with the supposed environment of the speaker, and the British idiom is largely relegated...