Word: drawling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Strictly Continental. On Sydney buses and Brisbane trams, German and Italian accents now mingle with the cockney-like drawl of Old Australia; a ticket taker at Melbourne's Flinders Street station is apt to be a shawled Lithuanian woman who speaks no English at all. In the heart of Sydney's roistering Kings Cross district, now a maze of cosmopolite cuisine and chatter, Old Australians crowd into the posh Chelsea restaurant to be attended by an Italian headwaiter, a French chef, Hungarian, Czech, Yugoslav and Bulgarian waiters. A Melbourne food store that once sold two kinds of bread...
...other half of the team, David Brinkley, 39, who has never lost all of his North Carolina drawl or his essentially mischievous disposition, provides the show's seasoning. Viewers have learned to rely on frequent injections of his subtle and astringent wit and to watch for the point of his sharp needle-often delivered with a squirming body English that is as familiar a Brinkley trademark as his lopsided smile. A onetime United Press staffer, he began doing TV newscasts in Washington in 1943, when there were only a few hundred sets in the city ("I had a chance...
...years between, as she tells it in Goodness Had Nothing to Do With It (Prentice-Hall; $3.95), Mae had perfected her inimitable style: the silken walk that suggests the meshing of superbly machined parts, the languid glance, the., lethargic but meaningful gestures, and the tantalizing drawl employed with devastating effect in sybaritic phrases such as "Beulah, peel me a grape," or "Come up 'n' see me sometime...
...child one minute and the drunken swagger of a two-bit slut the next. There is a fine Blanche latent here! There are some strang inflections and an unusual clipped speech that often give her voice an ingenuous quality, and seem wholly at odds with a New Orleans drawl; but it is to Miss Humphrey's credit as a concentrated performer that she is the only member of the company who has made any attempt to master the accent problem...
...G.G.G. and goes after the bad guys like a blackbird picking ticks off a cow. In the end, with the villains all gone, the heroes have nothing left to do but answer the all-important questions: 1) Who is faster on the draw? 2) Who is slower on the drawl...