Word: accents
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Nehru has been a somewhat nebulous figure, graceful and great, "a jewel among men" as his master Mahatma Gandhi said, but vaguely seen and known. Now, after two years as Prime Minister of free India, he is emerging in sharp and colorful detail. The cultured patriot with the Cambridge accent, luminous eyes and magnetic smile who spent 13 of his 60 years in British jails has become the Orient's unoriental, supercharged public executive...
Bouncing out of the wings and turning on his Missouri accent, he had gotten off a rousing, "give-'em-hell" speech, designed for the farmer-labor combination that had elected him last November. The audience at the Allegheny County Fair was tailor-made-farmers from the countryside, steelworkers from Pittsburgh's mills. "Farmers and industrial workers . . . depend on each other," he told them...
...harrowing situations like mechanical toys that need winding. A new actor, Jeff Chandler, registers a slow magnetic power similar to Gregory Peck's, and is apt to become at least half as popular. Stephen McNally, oddly the only one in the movie who tries for a Jewish accent, misses it spectacularly...
Plunging from a chuckle to a shout, bellowing into a telephone in his broad Yiddish accent, flourishing an unlit cigar, Dubinsky directs this show with shirt-sleeved zest and an even hand. Says he: "You've got to be on your toes, not on your bottom...
...sanction three pronunciations of gynecology: with the first syllable as "jin" (favored in Philadelphia), or as "guy" (commonest in New York), or as "jy" (scattered). The volume also recognizes the fact that a Bostonian has his bellyache in his o&-domen, while most other Americans get theirs an accent lower-in the abdomen...