Word: accents
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...plot is not the point. It is Fields with his delightful German accent who carries the show. Even the saddest situations, handled by this popular pet of the last decade, become the subject of uncontrolled mirth. The scene in the office of Al Tyler with off-stage jazz bands, is a true picture of the slapdash production of vaudeville and musical belly-wash by the mighty morons of the "continuous." This scene allows the introduction of the vaudeville team of Hackett and La Marr (Sam White and Renee Noel) who bounce through a demonstration of their new and excellent dancing...
Here are all makings of a pretty scandal. In the unavoidable absence of Mr. Longfellow, no one can determine whether Mr. Dexter Pratt, who lived on Brattle Street, was he of the famous muscles, or whether the poet's hero spoke with a strong Kentish accent. The only possible solution is that Mr. Pratt was a man of means who kept two establishments. Or possibly the poet was inspired by the cumulative effect of two constant trees...
When questioned on this award, DeMar said, "I am very, very pleased to receive this official recognition." In 1911, after his first victory, he was offered a letter by Vermont University, which he had attended, but is reported to have said that he didn't have the check to accent it. "I have the check to accept this letter, however," he said, "for during the war I acquired some from the army...
...Johnson's most justly famous speech on the floor of the Senate was the one in which he pronounced Mc-Adoo "Micky Doo." The sole disturbance caused by him was an attack on the press gallery for alleged misrepresentation of his grammar and accent...
...Chairman, a bucolic rifleshot, with an evangelistic temperament. Senator Wheeler of Montana, colleague of Senator Walsh, prime mover of the oil investigation, is the active prosecutor. Wheeler is young, radical, a hard fighter, a smiling fighter, somewhat inclined, nevertheless, to lose his head. Strangely enough, he has the accent of Massachusetts, his native State. For comrades, Brookhart and Wheeler have the tart Moses from New Hampshire; Jones of Washington, normally placid and a bit heavy, but roaring, desk-pounding when aroused; Ashurst from Arizona, with a substantial "bazoo...