Word: drawled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Lacking her usual "umphy" drawl, she floundered when asked if college men make good lovers. "I guess I haven't been around enough...
...rubles ($7.50) on two successive occasions, Vishinsky responded with his menacing stage whisper: "Aha, thirty silver pieces. Twice more than Judas."* One of the neatest signals was given by former Premier Faidsula Khodzhaev of Uzbekistan, a swarthy Asiatic speaking Russian as thick and soft as a Negro drawl. "I ask you to believe me!" he cried at the climax of his confession, "but of course you cannot believe me, because of my position here!" To this wily Asiatic it fell to confess that the British Government had figured in the conspiratorial arrangements of Trotsky...
...study the 1,054 words which Hugo Black spoke in 11 of the 30 minutes allotted to him. He began his speech by alleging that the criticism of his former Klan connection was a "concerted campaign" to fan the flames of religious prejudice. Said he, in a nasal Southern drawl: "If continued, the inevitable result will be the projection of religious beliefs into a position of prime importance in political campaigns and to reinfect our social and business life with the poison of religious bigotry. . . . To contribute my part in averting such a catastrophe in this land dedicated to tolerance...
...newspaper reporter, and although he took time out to finish his education at Harvard, he continued to hold jobs in newspaper offices and publishing houses. Seven years ago he published his first scientific article in the Atlantic Monthly. Today, a small, ruddy, cheerful, white-haired man with a southwestern drawl he has a less effulgent reputation than any one of half-a-dozen British luminaries but he is probably one of the ablest popularizers of science writing in English...
...ally. Senator Joseph F. Guffey of Pennsylvania, a favor by giving an I. C. C. berth to Senator Guffey's brother-in-law Carroll Miller. Mr. Miller, a lanky six-footer whose lantern jaw, stooped shoulders and pince-nez make him look like a schoolmaster and whose extraordinary drawl and dry wit sometimes make him sound like a Will Rogers type hayseed, hails from Richmond, Va., has spent most of his 62 years running utilities in the U. S. and Japan. Since marrying Mary Emma Guffey in 1902, he has made Pittsburgh his headquarters, is currently president of Thermatomic...