Word: accents
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Frankfurter. It was good Republican Henry Lewis Stimson, Secretary of War under President Taft, who first took Felix Frankfurter to Washington. As a U. S. attorney Lawyer Stimson had been vastly impressed with his ruddy, nervous little assistant who still had an accent when he came to him shortly after graduation from the Harvard Law School in 1906. Felix Frankfurter stayed long enough in Washington to gain the respect of President Wilson (who called him from Harvard in 1918 to head the War Labor Policies Board) and, more important, the lasting friendship of Assistant Secretary of the Navy Franklin Delano...
...days after President Roosevelt's last radio address, my genial barber, Mike, was attending to my wants. He speaks with a ghastly accent...
...Japanese advance pounded in toward Peiping from Kupei Pass on the north and the Lwan River on the east, the Tokyo War Office persisted in its old declarations that Tientsin and Peiping would not be attacked. Said a young attache with a marked Oxford accent...
When Pennsylvania's U. S. Representative Charles Isaiah Faddis came home to his Washington apartment he opened the door on a young burglar. The burglar pointed a pistol at Representative Faddis, told him in a rich Southern accent to put up his hands. Faddis took one step forward, swung his fist against the burglar's jaw, knocking him down, jarring him loose from his pistol. Mr. Faddis then called police who took the young man, one Clarence Roberts, 17, to the hospital...
...Harvard boat them was because they got all the breaks. No, I wasn't there, but I heard all about it. And your hockey team, why that bunch bought off the referees--I heard all about that, too. And you know, I think the Dartmouth drawl has this Harvard accent beaten a mile. They are both a lot of hooey, but I like them just the same...