Word: accents
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...obvious Americanism of the cast and the international handling of the plot made us forget that the story dealt with German soldiers, in German uniforms, singing occasionally German songs, with what passed as a German setting. For us then it was just "The Horrors of War" without any conscious accent on the nationality of the participators...
...LADIES AND GENTLEMEN! " - so loud, so clear, so utterly without a trace of accent were the Dictator's opening words that thousands of Americans jumped, marveled...
...Accent came with the next words. Try 'as he might Il Duce could not keep up the pace he had set with "ladies and gentlemen." His Italian larynx clipped "people" first to "peepl" and finally to "peep." His "the" gradually became...
...Well that cleans that up," came back Groucho, and so the interview began. The brothers, casting off their stage characteristics, but still sprinkling humor in their remarks, freely talked of their lives and their views on the theatre Strangely enough, the head spokesman was Chico, of the inimitable Italian accent, the oldest of the four...
Harvard men are snobbish, aesthetic, indifferent, blase, indolent, sloppily dressed, and proud of an anglophile accent. The novelty of such conjectures by these devotees of James and Neitzsche is no whit more surprising than their dictum that the breed infesting the environs of Cambridge is also democratic, lacking in artistic appreciation, interested in life, naive, go-getters, and good American boys. They are attired faultlessly. That is the indictment of Dartmouth and the sisters sufficiently far across the common. Dartmouth, according to the consensus of opinion expressed by its contemporaries is one long Wah-hoo-Wah plus a touching love...