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Word: accents (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Lyda Roberti, with her blonde curls, her smile, her accent and her compelling rhythm outstrips the rest of the female participants in the matter of sex interest, while Helen Mack contributes a winsome bit which will not go unappreciated. All in all "College Rhythm" combines nonsense with some good musical numbers and one of the best choruses in the movies to produce a fairly amusing incident for a snowy afternoon. It can be recommended as a respite from such fly-specks on a Senior's schedule as French 7 or History...

Author: By O. F. I., | Title: The Crimson Playgoer | 1/18/1935 | See Source »

...Still unknown to the general public, Oscar Florianus Bluemner has been a pet of the U. S. art world for 25 years. His friends jammed the gallery last week. Fellow artists, retired critics, dealers, fell over each other in their eagerness to tell newshawks about his cat Jochen, his accent, his cigars, his career as portraitist, architect, bartender, philosopher...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Vermillionaire | 1/14/1935 | See Source »

...lives in what he likes to call "the last house in South Braintree, Massachusetts" with his musical daughter Vera, his son Robert, a black cat and a pair of bluebirds. Forty-three years in the U. S. have not changed an accent that would make the fortune...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Vermillionaire | 1/14/1935 | See Source »

...Biddle had been in office one day when, at his first press conference, he announced that his initial act would be to accept the Houde challenge. "I am sure," declared the small, freckled-browed chairman in a clipped Harvard accent, "we have enough to go on. . . ." He said he had been to see the Attorney General day before...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Houde to Court | 12/10/1934 | See Source »

...have come to regard the small white-haired lady as their mascot. She knows each time they make a mistake, lives with them in the Hotel Lincoln across from the theatre. For the performances she insists on buying her own $1.65 balcony ticket. Says she in her bright cockney accent: "I can't imagine 'eaven without Gilbert & Sullivan. I do hope those two men will be busy at it when I get up there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: ADDICT | 12/3/1934 | See Source »

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