Word: drawling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Frank Hamer is 6 ft. 2 in., weighs 200 lb. and is reputed to be one of the best bagatelle players in the U. S. He wears a big black hat and his trousers outside his boot tops, speaks little and that little in a slow, courteous drawl. In Texas his marksmanship and speed on the draw are famed. His favorite revolver he calls "Betty" and some 60 badmen have died at his hand. For 27 years before November 1932, he was a Texas ranger. "When they elected a woman governor for the second time," he explained, "I quit...
...wife, whom he married when he was 46, has not been able to break him of-his feet bother him. An earthy humorist, he likes to tell stories on his feet. Once he leaned out of his car in Manhattan and startled a policeman by enquiring in a soft drawl: "Officer, what kind of shoes do you wear? I have lots of trouble with my feet and just won dered how you manage to stand on yours all day long." The scene of the best Jones foot story is laid in Buckingham Palace. Colonel Edward Mandell House of Austin...
...budget message and his address on the State of the Union until 1:30 the night before, but as he sat at his desk after luncheon he gave no hint of fatigue. The telephone rang, and when he lifted the instrument he could hear the soft Arkansas drawl of Senate Democratic Leader Robinson...
...thin dark hair above a domed forehead. His nose is long and straight between round, ruddy cheeks, over a full-sized chin and small mouth. Mostly he listened but when he did speak between puffs of a cigaret, his voice was pleasantly rich and low. almost a diffident drawl. He was Raymond Moley. Officially he was there as an Assistant Secretary of State. Personally he was there because, as head of the "Brain Trust," he is President Roosevelt's closest, most intimate adviser. The President calls him "Ray." He calls the President "Governor." His job was not only...
...darling. The only reason Harvard boat them was because they got all the breaks. No, I wasn't there, but I heard all about it. And your hockey team, why that bunch bought off the referees--I heard all about that, too. And you know, I think the Dartmouth drawl has this Harvard accent beaten a mile. They are both a lot of hooey, but I like them just the same...