Word: accents
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Accent on Youth (Paramount). Play wright Samson Raphaelson balanced this fragile triangle on Broadway for many weeks in spite of its perilous distribution of sympathy in favor of middle-age against youth. As a cinema it enlists the aid of Sylvia Sidney and Herbert Marshall, whose air of romantic maturity is accentuated by powdered temples, spectacles, and a polite, nostalgic way of asking for a kiss. Miss Sidney first becomes his leading lady (he is a playwright ) when getting fired as his secretary prods her into a love avowal, and ends as his fiancee after an interlude with Philip Reed...
...speech. The Free State President launched into a speech entirely in Gaelic, not a word of which did Minister Owsley understand. "Cead mille failte," cried de Valera, meaning "a hundred thousand welcomes." When the strange, rhythmic gurgling and throat-clearing stopped, Minister Owsley replied in his own broad Texas accent: "I am proud on this eventful occasion in this historic Dublin Castle...
...when he reminded them that though Satan's time on earth is up, he "refuses to get out" and so must also be destroyed, under the leadership of Jesus Christ. Burden of Judge Rutherford's rambling remarks, delivered in a clear voice with a trace of Southern accent, was that the Day of Armageddon is at hand. "My language." said the Judge, "is wholly inadequate to describe that battle. But quotations will give you an idea." Thereupon he produced from Scripture a series of lurid pictures of plagues, storms, flashings of fire, quenchings of sun, moon and stars...
...Frederick Weyerhaeuser died without ever having lost his German accent. Eldest Son John Philip, already a well-aged man, had moved to Tacoma to take over the western part of the Weyerhaeuser empire, leaving younger brothers Rudolph and Frederick in control at St. Paul. Two of John Philip's sons went to Yale. Of the third generation, these are so far the most outstanding Weyerhaeusers. When Son Frederick got out of college (1917) he nailed a rubber hook to his office door, amused himself at his father's repeated attempts to hang his coat...
...Douglas Farrar, 75, father of Soprano Geraldine Farrar, 53; after long illness; in Manhattan. When his daughter was small Father Farrar played professional baseball, kept a men's furnishing store in Melrose, Mass., sold it to help finance her study in Europe. When fame came Geraldine changed the accent on her name. But her father stayed plain "Syd" Farrar. In late years he farmed in Ridgefield, Conn., where Geraldine also has a home. Custom was for him to lunch with her daily, to eat in his shirt sleeves if the day was warm...