Word: drawled
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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...
Maxey Jarman has carroty hair and mustache, a thick Southern drawl and is a Baptist deacon like his father. He neither smokes nor drinks, begins every stockholders' meeting with prayer, fills his annual report with remarks like: "We believe that to be successful we must build on a foundation of Character." He has also filled his annual reports with solid figures. General Shoe now has 40 retail outlets from coast to coast selling shoes in the $3 to $7.50 class. Its fiscal 1938 earnings were $647,670.15, or $1.27 per share. Current orders are the largest in its history...
...clothes (by Hattic Carnegie) all contribute to the ensemble, but Miss Lawrence achieves most of her effect with her voice. Like none which she has used in the past, it ranges from the affected, hysterical gaiety of Fontaine to the throaty rasp of Blanche Calloway, and a mischievous drawl at the end of each sentence mocks her own words...