Word: accents
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When reporters asked what he had said to Acheson, the President explained: "I wished him luck as I've always wished them luck when they leave here." But the accent was different. Obviously, the U.S.'s President and his Secretary of State were confident that they held some strong cards and that the need for luck was no longer quite so desperate...
...standards of art. "I am willing to break my neck," she told a reporter, "to do something new." After she had seen the Italian-made prizewinning movies, Open City and Paisan, she wrote Director Roberto Rossellini: "If you ever need an actress with a Swedish accent, just call...
...while the camera conscientiously explores the virtues and vices of the school system, young Jack gets caned, taunted, snubbed and bullied by his masters and schoolmates. In the end he emerges a successful product of the British public-school system, with a stiff upper lip and an upper-class accent. Both upper & lower social classes, presumably, have learned a lot in the process...
...handwritten gossip sheet called The Daily Glonk. But he did not really want to be an editor; he yearned to be another Ty Cobb. Though an inept ballplayer, Hadden modeled his batting style and his energetic walking style after his hero, and affected a side-of-the-mouth Brooklyn accent that he thought suitable for ballplayers. Elected editor of the weekly Record at Hotchkiss School, he wistfully wrote his mother: "I'd rather get one 'H' [in baseball] than be editor of all the papers in the world...
...Spitfire," Katherine Hepburn has conversation with God in a hillbilly accent. It's pretty embarrassing...