Word: accents
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...progressive organization is, too, possessed of an unfortunate type of speaker, (one exception proved the rule) hardly felicitous of accent or manner. Until the group offers men a bit more representative of the student body as a whole, serious attention will surely be withheld. As for the M.M.C. & M.C., Lucius Beebe sends his best congratulations on "esprit de corps." And as for the NSL, try, try again. A weekly mass meeting would be welcomed by friend and foe of the Cause, alike. Hyde Park redivivus promises instruction and amusement for young and old. And let the watchword...
...born a Jew, I am a Jew, and I shall die a Jew," Otto Kahn once exclaimed. But there was German blood in his veins, a German accent in his speech, and two Otto Kahns before the world. By day he was Otto Kahn the banker-shrewd, suave, sometimes ruthless. The last time he made news in that capacity was when he appeared before the Senate Banking & Currency Committee last summer, admitted that he had paid no income tax for three years, flayed speculation and generally won the hard hearts of hostile Senators by his charm and grace (TIME, July...
...poem. In his overanxiety to avoid monotony Author La Farge frequently varies the metre, not always with happy effect. His easy narrative blank verse, with no straining after mighty lines, needs no such purplish patching. Close to prose, his verse is acclimatized to the salty New England accent: "Gracious to dearie me!" cried old Mrs. Slocum, "Confound this floor, by guy, I most to fell." "What's the matter, Ma?" called a voice from the darkness. "Mighty near bust my toe off's what's the matter. Told that boy a dozen times if I told...
...week. Archduke Anton, 33-year-old husband of the Princess Ileana of Rumania. Both have recently joined the Heimwehr. Both appeared at a Heimwehr mass meeting last week, the Princess wearing a little Styrian hat with the Heimwehr feather and green ribbon. Speaking rapidly in German with a British accent she said: ''The Heimwehr is our opportunity. We have real leaders now. The best thing we can do is to go along with them-for Austria and for the Fatherland, with a whole heart and with all our love." In Vienna New York Times Correspondent...
...woman-hating reporter who drifts into the ways of love. Walter Connolly, as Mr. Andrews, does remarkably well. But Miss Colbert is convincing in spite of playing second fiddle to Mr. Gable and because her lines are inherently good. Most of the "local color" characters speak with a labored accent but are rather picturesque...