Word: accents
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Middle Atlantic "Model Assembly of the League of Nations," an annual assembly of U. S. college students, met at Bucknell University and was embarrassed. Delegate Jerome I. Aron of France (i.e.,Haverford College) summed the situation up in impeccable French, translated by an interpreter with a strong French accent: "Ze League eez an illusion...
...When Broadway roared last season at Jean Giraudoux's Amphitryon 38, it was really patting some forgotten Greek dramatist on the back for his Amphitryon 1. When Broadway flocked to O'Neill's Mourning Becomes Electra, it was saluting Aeschylus' Oresteia with a Down-East accent. And given practically straight, Aristophanes' lewd, witty Lysistrata proved a Broadway...
...Paderewski's Accent...
...many other TIME readers noticed that you contradict Paramount's sound camera in reporting that Mr. Paderewski speaks English without trace of an accent [TIME, Feb. 27] ? L. L. BENTLEY Lancaster...
...fair is really bee-yutiful. Dat tall tower reminds me of de Washin'ton monument; an' dat big ball reminds me. . . ." Andy: ". . . of Jim Farley's haid." They were followed by New York City's little Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia, who assumed an accent and ad-libbed: (As Amos) "No mail today. ... I knew you should'n'a made dat crack about Jim Farley." (As Andy) "I thought dat was a pretty good gag." (As Amos) "Yes, but didn' you know de perisphere was empty...