Word: drawled
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...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...
...ready-witted patriarch with a slow drawl and snow white hair, Commissioner Davis was a Roosevelt appointee, specializes in fraudulent advertising. He once received a bitter complaint from an executive whose salary had been revealed in an FTC hearing. Replied Mr. Davis, cocking his head slyly: "My dear sir, if anybody paid me $90,000-and I really earned it-I would be glad to tell the whole world." William Augustiis Ayres, 70, now FTC chairman (the job rotates from year to year). A tall, slender, Wilsonian liberal who was on the House Naval Affairs Committee when Franklin Roosevelt...
...Standard now controls. Mr. Parish's official residence is still Houston, though he lives most of the time on Park Avenue, Manhattan. He likes to shoot quail in Thomasville, Ga., where he owns a big preserve jointly with Mr. Teagle.' A powerful six-footer with a Texas drawl, Oilman Farish was made a Standard director in 1927, chairman...