Word: accents
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...accent this year will be upon the beautiful, departing from the military aspect of last year's victory tournament. The floats this year are expected to surpass in their magnificence those of former years, some of which have become historical, such as the famous flower peacock entered by Mrs. Anita Baldwin...
Barlowe Borland as Peter, Huber's first helper, with his Scotch appearance and an undisguiseable Highland accent contrasted excellently with the suave Bart who never finds himself at a loss no matter how trying the situation. Peter furnishes one of the best moments in the play with his comments at the society reception where he is an extra waiter, with his remarks of "have a drink, lady?" and "wot am I doing, oh, picking up the empties...
...with facility. He never spoke it exactly as does one to whom English is mother tongue, but the difference of late years was just enough to betray foreign birth, and in his English writings there soon ceased to be even a trace of whatever in writing corresponds to "accent...
Unfortunately, however, the American student himself offers a great obstacle by his attitude toward every man who speaks English with the semblance of an accent. With one exception, notably in connection with the Cosmopolitan Club, undergraduates adopt a supercilious or at best thoughtless attitude of aloofness toward foreigners. They often do not realize that men who cross the seas to study in a strange country are usually more filled with enthusiasms, ideas, and ideals than many of the uninteresting and uninterested men who attend college because it is the thing...
...barrier, increasing in formidableness as time passes, to discourage the hasty reader. And, as Professor Perry remarks, the modern reader is content with picked-up ideas and "facile guesses" regarding the personality of this great Victorian figure. The real flexibility of Carlyle's use of language, "the rich accent of Annandale," is concealed for many by his vagaries and eccentricities. Moreover, the violence and unpersuasiveness of his method shocks the unsympathetic...