Word: drawls
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...noon, dapper, coal-black President-elect William Vacarat Shadrach Tubman took over from President Roosevelt's onetime host and guest, Edwin J. Barclay (TIME, June 7). Then the new President knelt to ask the blessing of God upon his people. His lazy drawl poured out over the multitude, reminding all that Liberia had been founded under God and on Christian principles...
First witness to come before the Committee with the industry's plea that it be regulated solely by the States was the Insurance Executive Association's president and chief spokesman, Edward L. Williams. Lawyer Williams, whose 25 years of Manhattan practice have not dented his Carolina drawl, was all set to sound off about ''smear campaigns" and "lies."* But shrewd Joe O'Mahoney snapped him off when he had no more than shouted "They is none" in answer to a query about the slush fund. The Senator was more interested in other facts. Some...
...mother was killed by a snake. Mrs. Wells worked hard on the bird's diction, avoiding profanity, and taught Raffles to speak only on cue (a process involving bribery with the bird's favorite food-grapes). A major crisis developed when Raffles picked up a Southern drawl from the Wells's Negro maid, but that crisis passed when the maid picked up its English accent...
...Sibelius Fifth Symphony, written in the distant past of 1915, was given an adequate reading. Following the intermission, Camargo Guarnieri, Brazilian composer, conducted the orchestra in-his own new "Abertura Concertante" while not particularly remarkable or inspired, is pleasant and diverting. And knee-deep in a mid-western drawl, engrossed in his Lincolnian stance, speaker Will Geer skillfully assisted she BSO in the local premiere of Aaron Copland's "A Lincoln Portrait" to conclude the concert...
...striking contrast to the usual brunet Louisianians. Most of the villagers are of English-Scottish descent; possibly their forebears came from ships captured by Jean Lafitte's pirates in the early 19th Century. Some of the oldsters recall their parents speaking of origins "up North." The villagers drawl their words more like Kentuckians than Louisianians, use the expression "a fur piece" to describe a considerable distance. When they are not trapping, they fish...