Word: accents
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hands on the mouthpieces. Air is furnished by a bellows which he operates with his foot. Although he designed it to show, by crude but effective imitation, the crudity of human speech, some U. S. listeners thought they could detect in its manual utterances a trace of British accent...
Tarzan's Revenge (Twentieth Century-Fox). Mrs. Eleanor Holm Jarrett, champion backstroke swimmer,* is the current cinemate of a new and mightily thoracic Tarzan, blending with his eerie ee-ya-ee call the chewing-gum flavor of her pronounced Brooklyn accent. This new Tarzan is lean, 6-ft. 2-in., Olympic Champion Glenn Morris, summoned to the role to replace Johnny Weissmuller. Actor Morris, who heroically combines the facial qualities of Broadway's Burgess Meredith and Hollywood's Harpo Marx, has the miming ability of neither. What he has is the 1936 Olympic decathlon title. His costume...
...Miracle. With her aunt, Miss Ida Sackheim of Brooklyn, she arrived in Paris on July 19. A few days later Jean De Koven was picked up in the lobby of the Hotel des Ambassadeurs by a young man known only as "Bobby," who spoke English with a strong German accent. Jean De Koven made a date with Bobby, slipped away from her aunt in the middle of the street, and was never seen again...
...again, the abbe shook his head, laughed nervously, reminded himself that he was a man of letters of some standing, and walked to the Colony Club, where he was to appeal to a luncheon group of 20 ladies, "all Catholic and all Christian." But because he had an English accent and Irish sympathies were strong, he was suspected of being a British agent. Day after day Abbe Dimnet failed to get an audience with the Cardinal, although Monsignor Dineen became slowly "a little less rude, or a little more tired of being rude." Finally the abbe pulled up a chair...
...British Embassy at Washington, where her father was now British Ambassador. Skillful wangling won the consent of Queen Victoria, President Garfield's wife, balky U. S. Cabinet members' wives. A sensation from the start, dark, blue-eyed, naïve Victoria, with her heavy French accent and "marvellously curving mouth," did in Washington "exactly what she liked with everybody...