Word: drawling
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...Republican rose in reply, and there seemed any possibility of a successful counter attack, Caraway of Arkansas interposed. He wandered from seat to seat, with his hands in his pockets, or walked like a monk in the monastery yard? head bowed, hands held before him? stopping only to drawl an apt, ironical remark. In the third row, beside the aisle, handling his books and papers, the downright Robinson, Democratic leader, maintained a watchful eye on the course of legislation, now and then casting in a tart remark or direction...
...UP?Hard characters and harder language softened by the casualty list from the Argonne and by the drawl of the Carolina mountains...
...lovely, but her dancing is of the best. "But why," wailed all connoisseurs of this sort of thing, "is she only allowed on the stage for so few precious minutes?" Admirable query! Mr. Teddy Webb becomes a fat German with success; Miss Cleo Mayfield has a well-practised, tough drawl, and Miss Vivienne Segal is nicely demure...
...though a difficult part played commendably well, showed less originality than some of the other characters. G. H. Field '06, in the part of "Hazy." or "?," DeTrop's absent minded servant, was in action and facial expression an extremely laughable figure. He spoke his excellent line with an inimitable drawl, and convulsed the audience by his solo "Absent-Minded," R. N. Baldwin '05 sang "The Ghost" and "Guidarello Gidarelli" with ease and snap. His burlesque of the sate ghost was amusing, but not consistent, even for the purposes of comic opera. For Gascon Abandon and D'Artagnan-like swagger...
...culchawed Boston drawl...