Word: accent
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...opening evening the audience was obviously bewildered. It seemed to expect that at any moment the play would suddenly become Seventeen with an English accent. Such development did not take place, but the audience laughed at the wrong time just the same. Scarcely in the memory of the staunchest theatregoer has there been such a flagrant example of ill manners and incomprehensible stupidity on the part of men and women who marry and go through the other forms of presumably intelligent adulthood...
...George and I went to Paris. . . . Asquith would not, Lloyd George could not, and I had to speak French. In French I know my vocabulary to be limited, my grammar to be imperfect, and my genders to be at the mercy of chance; further, I am told that my accent is atrocious.... When the Council was over. . .Lloyd George said to me: 'You know your French was the only French that I could understand...
...leetle hour, I mek you 'appy," he promises his old friend,--to attempt to reproduce Alan Mowbray's quaint dialect with its compound of American, a plausible Spanish accent, and the twang of Oxford English. There is the mortgage. Pancho robs a bank and pays it. One or two individuals insist in getting in the way. Pancho's confrere, Pedre, points firearms at them. There is the offensive and superfluous husband. Pancho shoots him personally. "There! What you say, my frien'?" Are you not 'appy...
First, he saw the beauty of the world, as in imbecile might see it, with the eyes of innocence. To understand him it is unnecessary to understand anything that happened before him except the creation of man. Second, he expressed what he saw with a graphic accent. His sculptures are stone syllables of a speech men suddenly realize that they know...
...School, who addressed his colleagues on the evils of over-education. He did not exactly say that "ignorance is bliss", but that "the farm laborer is often better educated than the clerk, whose head is filled with half-digested facts. A colleague took issue: "Tainted with the public school accent! A man like Dr. Vaughan who educates the more fortunate section of the population, contemplates with equanimity the ignorance of the rest of the country and speaks glibly of its happiness. The plowman may be happier than the clerk, but his. wages are miserably small and his prospects of comfortable...