Word: drawling
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...girls from Vassar the transition involved other adjustments. The big name lecturer was decidedly new, and it took some time for one girl to get over the shock of Cleanth Brooks asking her in a soft southern drawl, "Are you happy at Yale...
...dance which shows Green Eyes trying to go backwards in time" to avoid having committed his crime, it is hard to think of any actor and director who would be capable of it.) But Scott, with his mobile, graceful body, his vaguely West Indian accent, his bland, venomous drawl, has combined his own imagination with Genet's, and made a new creation...
...Manhattan to attend the premiere of The Prisoner of Zenda. After the Bird set up his own office, he encouraged indignant cries of fraud by claiming that he had insured a client (Southern Starlet Margaret Tallichet) for $1,000,000 against the loss of her drawl. Smugly he was able to exhibit the policy; he had indeed insured Margaret-for one day, at the cost...
Confident Democrats having a high old time together, all 900 luncheon eaters ($28 a plate) at Washington's Mayflower Hotel, applauded joyously one day last week when Party Faithful Tallulah Bankhead, wrapping her "dahlings" in her bourbon drawl, breathed spite upon the opposition. "Dirt is too clean a word for him," she said of Vice President Richard Nixon. Fumbling for an exit bit, Tallu focused upon the seated form of Harry S. Truman, listed sharply in a maneuver designed to land in his lap but, defeated by his red-faced agility,* succeeded only in a bear hug. Bawled...
...before a military transport could waft him (along with 1,382 other G.I.s) to his truck-driving trick in West Germany, there was time at the dock for the slimmed-down crooner to record a tearful Christmas message to one and all (to be sold commercially), and drawl a quote or two for 100 waiting newsmen. Brightly confessing that his ideal girl was "female," Elvis showed why as he leaned down to give an impassioned fan a farewell nuzzle...