Word: accent
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Button & Co. There was a well-preserved gentleman of some 67 summers, upon whose watch-chain hung a small gold ivy leaf-Arthur Hawley Scribner, who with his older brother Charles has carried on the business begun by their father in 1846. The swarthy gentleman whose dress, manner and accent bespoke the complete cultured cosmopolite was Alfred A. Knopf, master of the coursing Borzoi hound; the handsome lady with him -Mrs. Knopf...
...eyes were the alert grey eyes of an up-to-date New York business man. His hands were white, soft and well cared for. When he spoke his voice was unusually pleasant, his accent that of a cultivated and polished New Yorker...
...these handicaps peg in the role of the young woman securely, but none too satisfactorily, married played up and played the game. It was all very English, you know, what with "rippings" and talk of "funking it" interjected here and there, but the entire cast were its best Oxonian accent with never a quiver...
President Lincoln. Smooth and sleek-faced as a well-fed Britisher, he spoke with the accent peculiar to Piccadilly Circus. He discussed the U. S. Civil War with a comfortable affability, an easy indifference, a polished negligence. To indicate that he had aged during the performance, he hooked on a fringe of whiskers running from...
...yesterday in the ornate parlor of her suite in the Touraine Hotel. The interview came as the result of a moment's backstage conversation with Miss Bordoni after the opening performance of "Naughty Oinderella," in which she is now playing in Boston. Miss Bordoni continued with that intriguing French accent which has become famous on the stage, "After I leave Boston I am going to the coast to fulfill a short contract...