Word: accents
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...come back on the cheap. "We need have no fear of extravagance!" cried Father Greiger. "Otto has told me that on becoming King of Hungary he is prepared to be definitely a poor man's king. ... It is slander to say that Otto speaks Hungarian with an Austrian accent. He speaks better Hungarian than Koloman de Kanya, our present Foreign Minister"-who speaks with the West Hungarian accent of his native town Sopron...
...fairly well known; he is more human and more credible than Mr. Holmes, less precious in deduction than Mr. Vance, but has one serious dramatic defect. That is his Oriental origin, which calls into play all the ridiculous flummery which passes on the domestic stage for a Chinese accent, which was almost the ruin of Mr. Colton's Shanghai Gesture and which will survive until Mr. Nathan at last hoots it into ignominy...
...shared an island with her for three idyllic months. She swam out to the sharks when he asked her to share his hut. Heartbroken, Stephen returned to England to discover that his daughter had unknowingly fallen in love with young Nigel, now grown up and endowed with an Oxford accent. Inspired by an evangelist who exhorts him to "tune in on the Universal Spirit," Stephen rescues his brother's will from a burning home, on his deathbed restores the 14th Sir Nigel Fearless to his ancestral seat. The 14th Sir Nigel takes Stephen's daughter with...
...that most students heard about particularly before they came was President Lowell. Twelve mentioned the Collection of Glass Flowers in the University Museum, nine the College Library, and eight that Harvard students enjoyed themselves more than anyone else. Four would be wits could not refrain from mentioning the Massachusetts accent...
...Drexel Boulevard. Down at the corner is the new Lying-In Hospital. Across the street at No. 5822 is a smaller greystone house on the first floor of which she lives with her sister Katherine Alden and her jolly assistant, Edith Farrar, who speaks with a strong Southern accent and is very fond of The Nation. You can tell that there are mice inside when you stand on the front stoop of No. 5825 Drexel Boulevard. But you get used to the smell. Everything is very clean. In immaculate white linen dress Dr. Slye sits behind a rolltop steel desk...