Word: drawled
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Aged 55, Senator Robinson retains his drawl and heartiness. His fists are big, his temper quick. Four years ago, during a golf course argument, he punched down another player (one Dr. James F. Mitchell of Washington, D. C.) and had to be suspended from the Chevy Chase Club. Senate Democrats respect his courage and vocabulary. Latest to be whipped into order was Alabama's ponderous Heflin, who challenged Senator Robinson's leadership during one of his Pope-baiting tirades (TIME...
...Greco-Carillo defense committee enlisted the services of Lawyer Clarence Darrow of Chicago. Last week, in the tawdry Bronx courtroom, Lawyer Darrow, one of the most dangerous lions of the U. S. bar, exercised the expressive seams in his face, hunched his expressively hulking shoulders, intoned his expressive drawl, until he convinced 12 jurors who had no interest in the political passions of "little Italy" that Italian political passions were the motives underlying the prosecution; that the prosecution's case rested solely upon identification of a rear-view of one of the alleged murderers, the identifier being a Fascist...
...Greco-Carillo defense committee enlisted the services of Lawyer Clarence Darrow of Chicago. Last week, in the tawdry Bronx courtroom, Lawyer Darrow, one of the most dangerous lions of the U. S. bar, exercised the expressive seams in his face, hunched his expressively hulking shoulders, intoned his expressive drawl, until he convinced 12 jurors who had no interest in the political passions of "little Italy" that Italian political passions were the motives underlying the prosecution; that the prosecution's case rested solely upon identification of a rear-view of one of the alleged murderers, the identifier being a Fascist...
Last week, when small-eyed Senator Watson of Indiana, Chairman of the Committee on Committees, arose to ask that the new committee be appointed orally, he was greeted by the mocking drawl of the chief of the Democrats' sarcasm department, Senator Pat Harrison of Mississippi. With considerable prompting from Senator Caraway of Arkansas, his twin wit, Mr. Harrison undertook to remind everyone how just such "radicals" as the present "progressives" had been "read out of G. O. P. ranks" three years ago (TIME, Dec. 8, 1924) and denied any Senate committee places at all. Now, behold, the "progressives...
...time music student at the Wilson-Green School at Chevy Chase. She had fled classroom and the First Baptist choir for the snapping footlights of Manhattan. George M. Cohan, alert actor-producer-play-wright, gave her audience & advice. The advice was to go into musical comedy. There, a Southern drawl, an arch manner and a pure voice carried her to the top of the musical stardom, to join the All-American Grand Opera Company in France. Now her cycle returns to Manhattan...