Word: drawled
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...with time for anything but business. Newspaper men who interviewed him in the midst of his historic duel with the Morgan interests over Dodge Bros, were astonished to find him utterly cool and relaxed, willing to talk (a clinging drawl) for five minutes about the very simple facts of the deal and for 55 minutes about himself, his many friends, his children (Clarence Douglass, aged 15, with whom he hunts and fishes; Dorothy Anne, aged 12, whom he supplies with dogs, ponies, stories and a paternal playmate), his herd of Guernseys, his frequent trips abroad...
...West is a queer place and odd things happen out there, but not quite as bad as that. Richard Whorf in direct contrast to Miss Ediss was thoroughly in harmony with the setting. He has learned the clumsy rolling gait of a cowboy off his horse and the slow drawl of the Western plains. It's too bad, he wasn't given a bigger part. Mr. Clive, also, confined his undoubted talents to a few lines...
...advanced his career another step. To be sure, the probability is that, as Speaker, he will have less power than in his former post. The days of Thomas B. Reed, when the Speaker was "Czar," are gone forever. Reed, the sarcastic, the quick-witted, with his New England drawl, and his 200 pounds of avoirdupois (he may have weighed more, but, as he himself observed, "no gentleman weighs more than 200 pounds") overrode the rules and counted silent Democrats, declared a quorum present, although the Democrats refused to answer to the roll call. One day, when the Chairman...
Parasites. Francine Larrimore belongs in this play about as much as she belongs in the Chinese army. Miss Larrimore is a vivid young woman with a drawl. She is the kind that ought to go suddenly into an Apache dance with the District Attorney and stab her way back to the underworld. Against a Bar Harbor background she jars perceptibly. Still that was the way the whole play went. It was a cheap conception by Cosmo Hamilton, probably having originally a sound satirical value. The latter was played out of it by a poor cast and burlesqued...
Trini, from Spain, is the temptress-in-chief. Barnett Parker, clown of countless Shubert productions, assists the considerable supply of comedy with his London drawl. There were the usual dancers, chorus, color and a diverting score. Taken in sum, it is one of the better, but not one of the best, examples of the species...