Word: accent
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...bedroom. A girl with a primitive face and a fine supple body leans over the back of a chair. The skin has texture; the pose understanding; but over it all, the simplicity, the strong drive of the light into the picture, is something too glib, a derived accent. A jury of critics would have chosen it; the Carnegie's jury of painters gave it only an honorable mention, as they gave Antoine Faistauer's exceedingly competent "Old Village, Menton" and John Carroll's pretty illustration "Man With Guitar." (Would it, one critic demanded, have been too laborious...
Mademoiselle Lenglen spoke English fluently in a low voice with just a trace of Parisian accent. Her manner was quite charming. The reporter forgot in his admiration to ask just how she got that straight back-hand drive and gabbled instead a trite question about professional tennis...
...setting of the play perhaps aids in the good-natured enjoyment of the three acts. The scene is laid in Boston, and the characters are billed as typical of the city. Harvard is mentioned frequently, and always with conventional accent--conventional at least in New Haven' and Worcester. Indeed, Henry Adams himself went to the University by compromise: He picked Yale, the Adams family chose Harvard; and they compromised...
Politely, in his best Teutonic accent, the invader thanked them, waded back to a small boat, boarded his launch, returned to Cape Gris-Nez, France...
...Committee issued a subpoena for Mr. Insull and just then it became known that he had planned to go abroad. The press hinted at evasion, whereupon Mr. Insull, charged with having furnished the largest individual wad of political slush-money ever known, replied (in a quaint accent that is all his own) : "I have made only two statements for newspaper publication...