Word: accent
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Snobbery. Democrats insisted that, stronger than any distinction as to honesty or ability, the electorate made a social distinction between the nominees; that the President-reject was "whispered" about for his lack of polish, for his spitting on floors, rough voice, vulgar accent. Democrats were only infuriated when Republicans, admitting this charge, said...
...speak in southern dialect, and to these northern ears seem to do it convincingly. But it is in this field that one discordant note rises. Amidst all this soft speaking the casting of the younger brother of the heroine has been such that the actor speaks in the nasal accent of toity-told street. This is really to be regretted as it is thoroughly jarring to pass from the melody of Helen Hayes to the harshness and total lack of southern accent of a supposed brother as impersonated by Andrew Lawlor...
...Semple McPherson. They 'ad 'card vaguely that Missis Mc-Pherson came from 'Ollywood; and, 10,000 strong, they packed and sweated in, to learn about sinnin' from 'er. Somehow plump Mrs. McPherson's soaring contralto failed to please. Perhaps the trouble was her accent. Since she is a woman the Lower Classes did not criticize her personally; but several Gallery Gods bawled that Gor' blymy her assistant evangelist didn't sing so an Englishman could understand him! Biting her lip and pink with vexation, Aimee McPherson shrilled...
...pricked into action by the Scottish blood of his mother. Guide's father, Bernardo Fabbricotti, 64 years ago, married Helen Murray, a Scotch noblewoman of sorts. Son Guido inherited the quarries of his father and the early rising hours of his mother-together with an English public school accent and a love for good horses...
...city of Winnipeg, in the province of Manitoba last week a tall, ascetic-looking man wandered, but not aimlessly about the city. Here and there he let it be known that Winnipeg suited him. A good town for a breakfast-food factory. No remittance-man he; his accent was not that of an Englishman, but of a U. S. Southerner. His appearance was not that of an Englishman come to make good in the Dominion, but of a U. S. business man, albeit he was less jovial, perhaps a little harder than most U. S. citizens. As suddenly as they...