Word: drawling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that time, Mary Gilliland, whose thick drawl had made trouble for the judges, was clearly over her head: in Round 23, she spelled eudaemonic with a "y" That left Sandra facing only Dana...
From Playwright Tennessee Williams, chronicler of assorted tales of bottom-drawl Southern hot cats and baby dolls, came a candid, do-it-yourself interview, courtesy of NBC-TV's Wide Wide World-with Williams answering his own tape-recorded questions. Excerpts: Q. Why has there been a disturbing note of harshness and coldness and violence and anger in your more recent works? A. I have followed the developing tension and anger and violence of the world and time that I live in. Q. Haven't you ever known any nice people in your life...
...fancy ball in Washington. D.C. is just like a fancy ball any place else, except that it is bigger, more fully packed and-when heavily peopled with gay Louisian-ians-easy on the drawl. Last week such a ball bounced bright and noisy off the walls of the Mayflower Hotel's grand ballroom...
...really," she murmured, with no trace of a drawl. "Just duets. I used to know 'I can wash the dishes.' And chopsticks. You know, that sort of stuff...
...accepting the reward, Miss Baker commented in an Actor's Studio Southern drawl, "Ah nevah went to college, but if ah would have had the chance, ah would have chosen Harvard." Actually, Miss Baker left St. Petersburg Jr. College after one term...