Word: accents
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...English Customs Commissioner at Canton, squeaked: "I accept this new arrangement under protest." ¶ Morris Abraham Cohen, English-born Jewish trick-shot pistol expert, was gazetted by the Canton Government last week a Brigadier General. Brigadier General Cohen says he was born in London, says it with the accent and gestures of a New York East Sider. From 1921 until the death of great Dr. Sun Yat-sen in 1925, "Sure Shot" Cohen was the personal bodyguard of the Father of the Chinese Republic...
...tires, had been shown in those stenographic flashes which are as yet the only means the talkies have discovered to indicate motion from one place to another. Its somewhat sentimental story is by no means a novelty but the dialog is terse and Douglas Fairbanks Jr. has an English accent which, if he uses it at home, must make his father feel like a pants-presser...
Jurado, with his quick, almost jerky swing, his swart little face and peculiar accent, has been a spectacular figure in European golf since he first played in the British Open five years ago and tied for sixth place. This year, with Jones, who has won three times, and Hagen, who has won four times, out of the Open, it seemed that he, or one of several British players would have a chance. MacDonald Smith, another Americanized Scot, who finished second to Jones twice last year, won the qualifying rounds. In the championship play he slipped back and Jurado, Armour...
Winning Critic Brown was born in Louisville, Ky., 31 years ago, has almost lost his accent. Graduated from Harvard in 1923. he traveled abroad for a year, came back to head the dramatic department of the University of Montana Summer School. Then he worked for Theatre Arts Monthly, then for the Post. His criticisms are noteworthy for their intelligence as well as iconoclasm. Critic Brown is hard to please. A onetime student at famed Professor George Pierce Baker's 47 Workshop, Critic Brown has never written a play himself but has published critical works (Upstage, Modern Theatre in Revolt...
...will give up the gangster if he will give up the bottle. The agreement lasts till Stephen Ashe gets drunk again. He then disappears and his daughter goes back to her gangster. When the gangster's attentions become painfully ungallant, a fastidious young man with an English accent (Leslie Howard) goes to his gambling rooms and shoots him, then pleads guilty to murder. Stephen Ashe reappears in time to conclude his brilliant defense of the murderer by falling dead in front of the jury box. Best shot: a cupbearer keeping Stephen Ashe drunk so he can win his last...