Word: accent
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...boys are not faithful and prompt, change them. If you are in a dilemma and cannot get anybody to deliver your Specials, take a substitute or a regular or anybody. Just make it a business to get those Specials delivered, and delivered promptly." Fancy Language. Far different from the accent of the First Assistant Postmaster General was the accent of a bulletin issued last week by Third Assistant Postmaster General R. S. Regar. Mr. Regar merely wanted to urge the public to address its Christmas mail plainly, wrap it securely, despatch it early, prepay postage fully. He prefaced his message...
Grimy pressmen will look up from their work in printing plants across the country in these next three months to see a neatly dressed stranger peering at them. If they can hear his comments above the thrash & roar of pressroom operation, they will be conscious of a precise English accent...
...Straton, "an attractive brunet woman" who speaks with a decided Southern accent (she comes from Atlanta), sat in a rocking-chair by the bedroom window darning black stockings...
...young John Sargent so "persevered in the Pine Arts" that he had no time for Parisian gaiety. In a negligee Bohemia his dress remained correct. Amid fads and fashions ornate, voluptuous, bizarre, he followed only Frans Hals and Velasquez. He learned, thoroughly, to build on true middle values, to accent with strictest simplicity...
...primitive Spanish model (Dancer Carmencita), painted his nose red and ate his cigar, he had ingenuity, humor. An erect, burly, bearded man who waited days to cool off before thrashing an abusive farmer, _ he was gentle, temperate, poised, just. A portraitist who could block out, build up, polish and accent an oil masterpiece in one sitting, with never any weak "teasing up" or dishonest glossing over, he had the disciplined intensity of genius truly great...