Word: accent
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Telephone Office said a "male with a heavy foreign accent" told one of their operators, "Because of the conviction of our friends in New York, we have planted a bomb in Memorial Hall and it will be blown up tonight," the report said...
...ever been seen in nature. Which is more fantastic? That a cappuccino-swilling duo would be caught dead spooning coffee from a jar, or that a two-career couple would spend their nights reading aloud from government documents? That anyone, much less the sophisticated lady with the arch British accent, would cart Taster's Choice to Paris, the City of Cafes, or that Harry's response to his wife's persistent nattering would be a chipper "Health-care reform again, huh?" If the pair of them had been members of the Screen Actors Guild when F.D.R. was President, there might...
Some faculty members are still in the dark. "I think it's sort of a Harvard tradition," speculates natural history professor A.W. Crompton in his jam-and-crumpets British accent. "I don't know why it's there. It tends to separate the A's from the B's. Perhaps that tends to be a bit unfair." Power is equally confused. "I think the numbers are really bizarre." But she retains faith in the University's wisdom. "I presume there's a reason," she adds...
...opens doors doe Katharine Hepburn; he dances check-to-check with Irene Dunne; he speaks in that relaxed yet pretentious British accent whether he's riding a horse or running a newspaper...
...white hightops--to match his tight white jeans and pink polo. He also flirts like a horny teen, minces and flaps his limp wrist: Whitcomb exploits all the routine mannerisms used to indicate that someone is gay. His assistant Barbara DeMarco (Rebecca Fasanello), has a thick Boston accent and blue hair to match her clothes. The patrons of the salon are a hetero geneous group Mrs. Shubert is a Boston socialite--they used to call her Muffy at Radcliffe; Edward Lawrence (Will LeBow) is an antiquarian who conducts business with a famous pianist living in the same building. There...