Word: accented
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Canadian Prime Ministers since 1867 only French Canadian was Sir Wilfrid Laurier (1896 to 1911). British to the core, he spoke French with an English accent, English with a French accent...
...other hand, Dorothy Lamour as an orientalized American is distinctly wooden--not only in her acting but in her attempt at speaking English with an accent. It seems that Paramount has taught her some Chinese for the picture; for those who are interested, it can be understood, but it recks of Brooklyn...
Sunday: John turned out to be a typical Harvard glamour boy with crew haircut, broad A accent, short trousers, and all the fixings. He writes for the "Crimson" and is absolutely death on the tutoring schools. After three ales he kept mumbling something about sticking to his ideals and keeping away from the "wolf" even if it means flunking out next semester. I tried to be sympathetic, but then deliberately referred to the "yard" as the "campus" when I found out he'd already invited a date for the Yale game. --Escort
...Lenin would say, 'The prestige of the workers must be upheld.' We cannot go against Comrade Lenin." But they hastily order "the smallest, dirtiest room in the hotel" when Moscow sends Ninotchka (Greta Garbo) to check up. She is an unsmiling young Russian, with a delightful Swedish accent, who announces that love is a chemical reaction, wants to know at once how much steel the Eiffel Tower contains. At Count Leon's (Melvyn Douglas) smart bachelor apartment, Ninotchka shocks his staid old butler by asking, "Does he beat you?" and by urging that all wealth be shared...
...Holy Cross and Fordham-two of the East's most powerful teams. The following week, Tulane trimmed Fordham and North Carolina trounced New York University, a less touted but promising outfit. By last week even the proudest Northerners had to admit that football was acquiring a decided Southern accent. A little grudgingly they conceded that the most outstanding game of the week was not in Yale's hallowed Bowl, not in Minnesota's famed Stadium nor Los Angeles' vast Coliseum, but in the shadow of the Smoky Mountains at Knoxville: Alabama v. Tennessee...