Word: accents
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...which points to a game with the accent on passing, and a passing game is a high scoring...
...Accent on Accents: There are too many Phi Beta Kappa members in government service, Senator Karl Mundt, South Dakota Republican, told newspaper executives in Chicago. "I shudder to think what the boys with the Harvard accents have cost the country in the last sixteen years," Mundt said, shuddering. Newsweek, October...
Along with the ski boots, the Limmers make mountain climbing boots and walking shoes. One pair of the climbing boots was worn by Arthur Emmons on the 1936 accent of Nanda-Devi which not a world climbing record...
...into a pretty kettle of fishy dilemmas and New England puritanism. In fact, it takes Director Mitchell Leisen, Paramount's special maestro of the improbable, another full reel to simmer their problems down to a happy ending. Most improbable bit: "Deacon" Henry Hull's rich mint-julep accent served up as a deep-dish Yankee drawl...
...French fleas?" came the equally chill voice of the publicity man for the French Société Nationale des Chemins de Fer. "Has some new method, then, been discovered for establishing the paternity of a flea? Do these fleas, perhaps, speak with a French accent? To speak of French fleas? Monsieur, is that not going, quite possibly...