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...really," she murmured, with no trace of a drawl. "Just duets. I used to know 'I can wash the dishes.' And chopsticks. You know, that sort of stuff...

Author: By David Royce, | Title: Baby Doll | 2/20/1957 | See Source »

...accepting the reward, Miss Baker commented in an Actor's Studio Southern drawl, "Ah nevah went to college, but if ah would have had the chance, ah would have chosen Harvard." Actually, Miss Baker left St. Petersburg Jr. College after one term...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Carroll Baker, Star of 'Baby Doll,' Made Pudding Woman-of-the-Year | 2/20/1957 | See Source »

...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...

Author: By Robert H. Sand, | Title: Why? | 12/8/1956 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Voice from the Past | 11/5/1956 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Oct. 22, 1956 | 10/22/1956 | See Source »

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