Word: accents
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...restore Mr. Bolton to a seat in the House, and it is just within the realms of possibility that he will restore not only Mr. Bolton but enough other Republicans to give his party a House majority. In that case little Joe Martin, who talks with a down-East accent, lives in an unpretentious bachelor apartment at the Hay-Adams House, would presumably become Republican Floor Leader to succeed Bert Snell who would move up to the Speakership. No one expects anything of this sort to happen this year. But how close Joe Martin can come to making it happen...
...trade association and nothing else. The radio industry is afflicted with various forms of static-incredibly complicated radio unions are fermenting, musicians, competing with canned music, are sullen, composers are at odds about patents-but Mr. Ethridge's chief duty will be using his charming Southern accent to reason Mr. McNinch away from some of his notions. Reports that he was going to censor all radio material to prevent such celebrated slips as the affair Mae West, he implied, were ridiculous. He will take no salary. When Radio really finds a Tsar, he will gracefully step aside...
Although they were accused of being highbrow and having a Hah-vahd accent when they faced Scranton, three members of the Debating Council had an otherwise successful Spring tour last week, in which they faced unusually large audiences between Jersey City, N. J. and Williamsburg...
...sole flaw in the tour was the defeat suffered at the hands of the University of Scranton, where ex-Mayor Durkan of Scranton swung a 2-1 judges' decision against Harvard on the accusation of it being highbrow and having a hah-vahd accent...
Collaborators. Co-author Infeld is a distinguished theoretical physicist in his own right. A tall, jovial man with irregular teeth and the lumpy physique of a sedentary scholar, he speaks English with a heavy accent, but fluently and well. Born 40 years ago in Cracow, Poland, he studied at Cracow's ancient university and in Berlin, lectured in Lwów, spent some years in England's Cambridge as a Rockefeller fellow, joined the Institute at Princeton in 1936. In Cambridge he helped Physicist Max Born, another German exile (now at Edinburgh), in the formulation of a field...