Word: accents
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...noticing the accent's pose...
...except the performance, which gave promise of a brilliant season. Two of the principal roles were acted by Mr. Clive and Mr. Wingfield, who had done them almost as well before. Miss Willard played Eliza Dolittle with originality and grace. She was not able to make her flower-girl accent sufficiently distinct, except in the first scene, and this was perhaps the only serious flaw in her interpretation. Miss Willard is personally charming and an actress of considerable merit, who plays with feeling as well as cleverness. Mr. Clive's Pygmalion was exceptionally spirited, funny, and winning, even...
...surprise comes when one sees in what quantities the Middle Western States send their native sons eastward to lose their "Hoo-is-yer" tendencies in a "Hawvaad" accent and a battered brown hat. Ohio with over a hundred enrolled almost ties Pennsylvania; Illinois is within one man of nearby Connecticut; Michigan, Wisconsin, Iowa, and Indiana range from thirteen to thirty. It is also enlightening to see that the state of California sends thirty-one students across the continent and that Colorado, now fattone the purse of the of the railroad with a delegation of seventeen. Only the southern states apparently...
...incalculably valuable thing for humanity at large to have heard at first hand. There are a vast number of us who do not realize the bigger and better things of life. The printed page does not reach such people. But the spoken word, with its emotion reflected in its accent does "get across" as we say, and it would be of tremendous value to have it do so generally. The radio telephone can do all this, and how much more is only a matter of conjecture. Each one of us can exercise his imagination upon the matter. But I venture...
...Reed has flourished, nevertheless. It has maintained the accent on scholarship with which it started and its students appear to be regular boys and girls, like any others...