Word: accents
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...decided not to "play" his Bostonian classmates to get himself introduced into their social sets, he firmly resolves to despise these men who out-shine him in their appearance at debutante dances, etc. Having resolved to despise them he hunts for reasons to justify his contempt: he ridicules their accent, their mannerisms, their dress. In short they are not like him, and they are having a gayer time, therefore, they are not to be despised as sissies and cads...
...other hand we have the "blood is thicker than water", type; persons who simply must have their tiffin, and into whose speech creeps a home-made Oxford accent whenever they talk to "those of the middle and lower classes." These are amusing and do little harm. What they fail to see is that we are no more English than we are anything else; in short, that we are Americans...