Word: accents
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hours Washington witnessed a Democratic stampede toward a sales tax. Then from Albany through the Press came a disembodied Voice with a strong Harvard accent: "Friends of Mr. Roosevelt would be horrified at the very thought that he in any way favored a general manufacturers' sales...
...Prince Michael Alexandrovitch Dmitry Obolensky Romanoff"), 42, all-time amateur impostor, ordered a cup of coffee after a six-day fast and sent a note to friends at another table, "Sorry to have disturbed you but I have just landed. Michael R." Talking fast in his baa-baa Oxford accent, with the manner of a man born with a gold spoon in his cheek, he began a new chapter of the famed Gerguson-Romanoff legend...
...sentimental, unconvincing hodgepodge of seventeenth century intrigue and gallantry, having to do with a Cinq-Mars conspirator and two agents of Richelieu. The acting was as uninspired as the play, with the exception of Mrs. Neill Phillips, who in the part of Diane de Pierreneuve, spoke with a perfect accent and acted rather well. The reviewer recommends that Le Cercle be chary of its new policy in the future...
...manners, dress, speech and tastes of the average college freshman today, whether he matriculates from Public School 19 or the hedged and sheltered confines of Groton or Andover, derive from the usages of Hollywood, according to the recently asserted views of a prominent educator. "The accent of the modern freshman from high school, his tastes in music, politics and drama have been influenced by the same agencies as those of wealthier and more urban students," says Harold H. Lobdell, dean of Massachusetts Institute of Technology...
...story, is cheaply invented and implausible. The only redeeming feature of Call Her Savage is Miss Bow's performance. Looking slightly more blowzy than she did in the days when she played flapper parts in silent cinema, she shows with enthusiastic violence and a flat, tough Brooklyn accent what such flappers can turn out to be when they grow up. Typical shot: Nasa (Clara Bow), insulted in a café, hurling a plate with one hand and striking a waiter with the other. Confessed Actress Bow when she arrived in Manhattan last week: "I'm getting older...