Word: drawled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Nash's fluttery doggerel is as American as a Mississippi drawl and as tempting to imitate. Last week reviewers were tempted to another outburst of meterless, rhyme-twisting verse by the appearance of Nash's fifth book of poems, The Primrose Path. In that outburst they were led by Critic John Chamberlain of the New York Times, who turned out a whole re-view in Nashiana. Excerpts...
...represented by President Bruce Payne of Peabody College in Nashville, Tenn. and President Pat Neff of Baylor University, Waco, onetime Governor of Texas. Governor Eugene Black of the Atlanta Federal Reserve Bank, now the President's official "liaison officer" between the Administration and the bankers, was there to drawl his endless funny stories. Board Chairman Clarence Edward Groesbeck of Electric Bond & Share went down from Manhattan. An old friend, he controls the utility companies of which Mr. Couch is president. Charles Peter ("Pete") Couch, the host's brother, brought more utility men from Shreveport, La. Most...
Just back from a trip to Europe, Senator Thomas Terry ("Tom") Connally last week held forth to Washington newshawks in his syrupy Texas drawl: "These fellows high in business don't know anything more about things than the man in the street. ... If the Government had not got into business there would be no business today. As soon as the businessman sees a slight improvement he keeps shouting, 'The Government must get out of business.' Businessmen do nothing but bellyache...
...cast their votes by long distance telephone.) Last spring Mr. Williams retired as president of R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. (Camels) to become an industrial member of the National Labor Board and, later, head of the Advisory & Planning Council. A big man with a soft North Carolina drawl and the best business manners in his State, Mr. Williams took his law degree at the University of Virginia in 1908. Like 50 others, he has been made a millionaire by the Reynolds Co. Not a great tobacco buyer or seller, he is known as a great tobacco lawyer...
...canvassed vigorously against the New Deal, in a victory which was tantamount to reelection. A Congressman for twelve years before his election to the Senate in 1928, Senator Connally wears a broad-brimmed black felt hat, chews gum or tobacco, makes able and frequent speeches in a syrupy drawl...