Word: accents
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...follow his father's profession of public accountant, he ran away from school at 14, earned his living for five years as cab driver, lifeguard, reporter, tile setter, office boy, bank clerk. Where an orderly schooling might have refined, this helter-skelter existence served to aggravate the amazing accent of an illiterate Hell's Kitchen ragamuffin which is now his principal financial asset. Stander's first important cinema role was in The Scoundrel (1935). His raucous, angry voice and guttersnipe demeanor stamped him immediately as a new and refreshing type, brought him a Hollywood contract. Since then...
...private life Lionel Stander is an earnest, reasonably cultured young man whose outstanding physical peculiarity is not his accent but his eyes-one brown, one green. He took up acting after an employer fired him for losing a package of bonds worth $147,000, worked his way up in bit parts on Broadway, directed a stock summer theatre, now has a long contract with Columbia. Last year he was paid $3,100 for acting in a picture in which he said two words ("Two Hearts...
What particularly galled Governor Hoffman were the following broadcast statements in Carter's clipped, British accent: "And so crazier and crazier grows the Hauptmann affair-more and more desperate over the week end became New Jersey's Governor to justify his official blundering and save his tottering political reputation-more and more dizzy stunts are dragged across the old trails to befuddle the public and confuse the main issue. "And so round and round-just as the music goes round and round-so round and round goes the Hauptmann affair-one of the most shocking exhibitions of gubernatorial...
...churchmen, who did able advance work in stirring up church interest wherever the little yellow man was booked. Before Kagawa had traveled very far, many people heard that his messages, mostly about "the love principle of Christ," were almost incomprehensible, delivered with a squeaky voice in a heavy Japanese accent. Nevertheless, out of sheer curiosity many a citizen obtained a free ticket to see the man who had been allowed in the U. S. through the intervention of President Roosevelt. Likewise ministers, whom he was in the habit of scolding because they do nothing but "preach, preach, preach," were eager...
...unite on a ticket for 1936 to be headed by Norman Thomas and Earl Browder. To this Mr. Thomas turned a cold shoulder, preferring if possible to avoid a new split in his party. The Communists, said he, "have suddenly changed from a disruptive role in the unions, from accent on inevitable great-scale violence and party dictatorship to a wiser role in the unions, but in politics to a bewilderingly opportunistic role. Their accent is on a half-baked immediate program." First excitement in the divided convention came when the Right delegation from New York appeared on the floor...