Word: accent
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Peggy Hopkins Joyce, in an English accent and making a coy moue, said "That's for you, horrid man!" as she tossed a glass of champagne upon the front of Erskine Gwynne, foppish nephew of the late Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt. The tossing occurred in a Paris cabaret, where Erskine Gwynne and Peggy Joyce were amusing themselves with separate parties. Erskine Gwynne had written an article called "Peggy Hotsprings Choice, Five Times a Bride but Never a Wife." After the tossing, Peggy Joyce and Erskine Gwynne played together in the cabaret and disappeared together...
...Biltmore, the Candidate stood up in an automobile and said he was glad to be there. He told his five thousand or so welcomers how busy he had been, governing New York-an amiable, spontaneous yet perfunctory speech until the last sentence. Then, slily combining his oldtime East Side accent with the local vernacular, he said: "I hope to meet yez-all personally before I leave." The North Carolinans cheered...
...officials have expressed the things the officials of any successful man usually express in his presence when there is some kind of an anniversary. But possibly, into that dinner on the President Polk, there will come, as there has in the past, a peculiar mood, and a peculiar accent in the speeches, that will make the celebration of Captain Dollar's anniversary different from most anniversaries...
...purpose could Mr. McAdoo have found than a Dry and a Catholic whose prestige began to surpass his own as long ago as the 1924 convention? At that convention, Senator Walsh waved aside sure acclamation for the Vice Presidential nomination. Last week, he accepted with dignity, pride and an accent already presidential, the news that a band of California delegates, headed by Mr. McAdoo, had declared for him and wanted to enter his name in their primary. Said he: "I was importuned some time ago to allow my name to be used and I simply said I would not veto...
Readers of national advertising quickly recognized the accent of his statement as the same accent that appears in advertisements for the Davey Tree Expert Co., such as: "Davey Tree Surgeons will not treat any tree for you that in their judgment is too far gone. The reason for this is obvious to them, but you with your untrained eyes must depend on their professional honor. . . . Davey Tree Surgeons will give nothing but first aid treatment to a tree that is starving. . . . Many clients urge them to break this rule by treatment of a hopeless case. . . . They answer...