Word: accents
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...second time in Soviet history, J. Stalin had had himself put on the air, and all Russia could hear his thick and at times almost unintelligible Georgian accent as he tonelessly reeled off a speech so dry that even the Orator found it best to solemnly drink on the platform a total of five bottles of mineral water. The happy rural delegates, for most of whom a free trip to the Moscow All-Union Congress of the Soviets once every few years is a glorious treat, gave their mass cheers with greatest goodwill at all the right places and even...
...failing to blow something or other. He was just as serious as was the ignorance of Rhodes when he gave thirteen scholarships meaning one for every state in our Union. I've been disappointed not only in what I thought was a superior English intelligence but also in their accent. So far as I can make out Harvard is the best place for the Oxford accent...
...Accented Whiskey. On sale in Manhattan last week went an "Irish Whiskey with a Southern accent." Brand: William Jameson Irish American Whiskey...
...easier school, find so difficult to accept. However this may militate against the picture's monetary value, it is of frequent assistance to its star. As an interpreter of the most solidly English of all English playwrights, Elisabeth Bergner's most pronounced drawback is an outlandish accent which she makes no effort to control. In As You Like It, the heterogeneous aspect of a forest already overrun by an astonishing gamut of classes, nationalities and wild animals is not greatly increased by a heroine who voices her passion in Germanic gutturals. Audiences may be pardoned for anticipating...
...bitter blow to those who recall with pleasure his slick gyrations in Sunny, Three's A Crowd, Flying Colors, As Thousands Cheer. In the case of And Stars Remain, however, the revue's loss is definitely the drama's gain, for Webb has the best Oxford accent that ever came out of Indianapolis, the most ingratiating stage personality to be rescued from musicals since Magician Fred Keating was coaxed away from his collapsible bird cages...