Word: hawes
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...gentleman with the shadowy cloak of anonymity began to hem and haw...
...back for a quarter-hour's solid amusement when he strikes such a forensic vein as inspired his essay on the Democratic Donkey: "He is a braying compendium of stately dignity, stanch endurance, fortitude and patience. ... In our quadrennial Presidential campaigns there is more music in his raucous hee-haw than in the midnight minstrelsy of a nightingale. The donkey is a serio-comic philosopher, whose stamina and stoicism conquered the wilderness . . . a sure-footed creature of epicurean taste and gargantuan appetite, but whose appetite and taste, happily enough, may be assuaged and satisfied by a nibble at a desert...
...choosing, which your Brain Trust would bungle in a day. Stretch every American's brain far enough to grasp that the monarchy is a different thing from the man who is King, and that British royalist sentiment has little to do with the blah-haw-haw which selected Englishmen, usually pabliticians, spill through the cigar smoke at Hands-Across-the-Sea dinners...
...personal preferences-my obligation to test unconstitutional rights as an American citi zen." Her eyes filled with tears as she added, "In this I have my father's complete approval. How he would stand with me if he were able." Not her father, who was once famed Haw ("Silver Dollar") Tabor's lawyer, but Miss Thomas' Lawyer Brother George prepared to defend her, take the matter to the Supreme Court if he could...
Most Southern cotton farmers will, hitch "Jude" and "Beck" to a riding "planter" equipped with a 12 in. "middle buster" and a seedbox filled with Maize or Kaffir, "gee" and "haw" aforesaid mules into their accustomed places between the rows, and at a single operation plow up the government's row of cotton and reseed the row with a feed crop...