Word: drawls
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Maxey Jarman has carroty hair and mustache, a thick Southern drawl and is a Baptist deacon like his father. He neither smokes nor drinks, begins every stockholders' meeting with prayer, fills his annual report with remarks like: "We believe that to be successful we must build on a foundation of Character." He has also filled his annual reports with solid figures. General Shoe now has 40 retail outlets from coast to coast selling shoes in the $3 to $7.50 class. Its fiscal 1938 earnings were $647,670.15, or $1.27 per share. Current orders are the largest in its history...
...clothes (by Hattic Carnegie) all contribute to the ensemble, but Miss Lawrence achieves most of her effect with her voice. Like none which she has used in the past, it ranges from the affected, hysterical gaiety of Fontaine to the throaty rasp of Blanche Calloway, and a mischievous drawl at the end of each sentence mocks her own words...
Inside the theatre, lobby and aisles are jammed. Chinchilla arrives to snub ermine and mink. Amid the babel of voices can be heard the high British squeak, languid Southern drawl. Continental roll of rs, marcelled New Yorkese. Down in front, as she has been at nearly every Broadway first night for over 20 years, sits elderly, fragile Mrs. Rita Katzenberg...
...technique or tone from 63-year-old Kreisler. What they expected, and got, was an afternoon of leisurely, charming, old-school fiddling such as only Fritz Kreisler can put on. Kreisler's playing is to the exact, nervous fiddling of today what a Kentucky colonel's drawl is to the feverish staccato of a prizefight announcer...
...public, he is a poor listener personally. Visitors have a hard time getting a word in edgewise but rarely mind because the Weaver conversation is equipped not only with a store of fresh ideas but with an incredible volume of Negro stories which he tells in a nasal Georgia drawl...