Word: accents
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rafters, drains them of blood, but not before one of them has annoyed the heroine by locking her in the spider's closet. The prison warden (Frank Shannon) points a suspicious finger at first one person, then another. The Japanese butler makes bright remarks in a Gallic accent. The swamp lad's father is buried in offstage quicksands, thereby purifying the Hollins blood...
Tony (Ramon Novarro), an Italian puddler with an accent who goes to New Haven on a scholarship, is a boor whose one asset is knowing how to play fine football. Everyone heartily hates him-everyone except his roommate and Rosalie (Madge Evans), the daughter of the chairman of the steel company for which Tony used to work. Even she is shocked when he suggests they spend some time at a secluded inn. But when he plays through the Harvard game all the while threatened with appendicitis, and almost dies therefrom afterward, classmates & Rosalie know at last he is a true...
Exactly what went on in Room No. 2604 was not told, but it was easy to imagine long-haired President Arnott dominating the conversation. As a speaker he is romantic, dramatic, often poetic. His accent is unusually pure, probably because his father was English and Oxonian. Since he entered the oil business in 1896 (he went with Vacuum in 1903) he has shown a flair for salesmanship. Most famed and profitable of his ideas was that each type of machine should have a special type of lubricant. Vacuum's chart showing what kind should be used was the result...
...Orleans race-track in addition to his properties in Chicago and Palm Beach. With no children of his own, he takes a charitable interest in orphans, holds a race-meeting for their benefit at Idle Hour Farm each autumn. Bland, dignified and equipped with a genuine Kentucky accent to match his genuine Kentucky colonelcy, Col. Bradley shows a wary reticence when talking to reporters. He has one superstition: all his horses have names begining with "B." Burgoo King was named for Jim Mooney, a Lexington grocer whose "burgoo"-a savory meat stew cooked for two days and sometimes seasoned with...
...Hapag" offices at No. 39 Broadway Mr. Lederer has a street-level office, walls hung with pictures of famous liners which have flown the blue, white and yellow "Hapag" flag. He speaks with an accent which becomes marked when he gets excited. This is apt to be frequent and employes dread "E. L.'s" wrath although they know it is always justified. Legend is the story that one day he overheard a prominent Manhattan lady arguing about rates. After listening awhile he rushed up and bellowed: "Veil, do you want to buy the ship?" Startled, she mended her behavior...