Word: drawled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After another prayer Michigan's Representative Louis C. Rabaut, to whose small, sweet tenor voice Joe Byrns had liked to listen, sang Absent and Thy Will Be Done. Leaning heavily on the rostrum, Speaker Bankhead declared in his soft Alabama drawl: "There were so tempered in the heart and soul of Joe Byrns elements of tolerance, patience and sympathy that he had drawn to him the ungrudging regard and affection of all men who came within the radius of his genial influence." Stumbling through his speech, Minority Leader Snell observed: "No worthier nor more dauntless friend nor foe than...
...gadfly of successive Republican Administrations. Equipped with a deep, mellow drawl, a sharp Southern wit, the tall, loose-jointed Mississippian drew a laugh, scored a hit almost every time he rose to tease, tweak, twit and torment the party in power...
...must be a girl without a soul. That farmer was a corporation." Republican Chairman Henry Prather Fletcher chimed in: "It is unbecoming to the Secretary of Agriculture to behave and talk as though he were playing a low comedy role in vaudeville." Promptly Secretary Wallace explained in his Iowa drawl that he had said the "farmer's dollar," not the "farmer's daughter...
Copies of this were snapped up by spite-loving socialites who got for their money advice on acquiring a honeyish Baltimore drawl and the aptitude to "listen and ask questions hesitatingly, girlishly, charmingly." Then: "Languidly take it easy, saving up strength for the 'concentration moments' when the man is around...
Resolution No. 3: Let the AP be protected against any liability arising out of ) Wirephoto. Big Jack Neylan rose on his long legs, began in an easy, booming drawl...