Word: drawled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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These triumphs were achieved by Richard Knight because: 1) his appearance was formidable and extraordinary; 2) in his calm Texas drawl he could be more shocking, more amusing, frequently more rude than the people he was subtly courting. He was also a clever lawyer. His business thrived. He was not merely asked to Newport and Palm Beach; he was invited again & again. He had hundreds of acquaintances, few intimate friends...
William Lamb naturally fell easy victim to the wholly different boudoir atmosphere of Devonshire House, whose tyrant was slight, agile, wide-eyed, willful, 17-year-old Caroline Ponsonby. Her lisping voice cooed out words in "the Devonshire House drawl." Said a rival: "Lady Caroline baas like a little sheep." Caroline liked to gallop bareback, to dress in trousers. Sometimes she would scream and tear her clothes, kick the floor with her heels. But she was vivid, fitful, daring and held even outraged relatives spellbound...
Visiting in Manhattan between retakes of Gone With the Wind, in which she plays Scarlett O'Hara, picture-pretty, British-born Cinemactress Vivien Leigh (real name: Vivien Mary Hartley Holman) gave newsmen a sample of her synthetic Southern drawl: "Just think, honey, in only a week of studyin' Ah learned to speak this-a-way. They gave me a test and honest-to-God if Ah didn't pass just like that. Wasn't it lovely...
...Manhattan newspapers, an advertising copy writer. Now in his late fifties (he says he is "eleven going on twelve"), Author Benefield commutes three days a week from suburban Peekskill, N. Y. to Manhattan to read manuscripts for his publishers, Reynal & Hitchcock. He still speaks with an oldtime Texas drawl...
Photoelectrically controlled Bessemer steel is mainly due to a man with a jocular drawl, who likes to fish, take photographs of steel mills, put his feet on his desk. His name is Herbert W. Graham and J. & L. got him fresh from Lehigh University in 1914. He once told his research staff that, instead of 200 bright ideas a year, he would rather have two ideas that worked. In 1934 smart Metallurgist Graham persuaded J. & L. to let him build a complete miniature pilot mill to try out new metallurgical ideas. In this mill he developed...