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Word: accents (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Great American Game who sold his soul to the devil for a chance to win the pennant for his team. The plot may get forgotten at times, but Damn Yankees offers something for everybody, a pleasant mixture of sex and good old homey sentiment, with the accent of course on the former...

Author: By Gerald E. Bunker, | Title: Damn Yankees | 3/28/1957 | See Source »

Saturday is jazz day on WHRB. From 3 to 8 p.m. ACCENT ON JAZZ brings you a variety of sounds and jazzmen carefully selected for casual Saturday listening...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Jazz: Best in Boston | 3/23/1957 | See Source »

Browder now lives in Yonkers, a dim, muddled man, wondering just why U.S. Communism could never acquire a true American accent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: To the Yonkers Station | 3/18/1957 | See Source »

...returned from college. His two patter songs about hitchhiking and airplanes are high points in the production. The other members of the cast are also capable, especially Anne Rindlaub as Mom and George Brown as Lou, the cowboy. John Bernard is a sincere Pop with a marvelous farmer accent, and T. T. Meyers is fine as a fiery neighbor...

Author: By Stephen Addiss, | Title: A Tree On The Plains | 2/28/1957 | See Source »

Never before had the 400-odd island villagers of North Haven seen such a fine schoolteacher and all-round nice fellow as lovable, affable Martin Godgart. A happy, hulking (6 ft., 250 lb.), multichinned chap with a Harvard accent, Godgart turned up last September on the tiny Penobscot Bay island off the coast of Maine, flashed a schoolteacher's certificate, got himself a job teaching high-school English, Latin and French. He quickly made friends with the normally reserved down-East folk; they liked his jolly ways, his eagerness to participate in North Haven affairs. He formed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AMERICANA: Ferdinand the Bull Thrower | 2/25/1957 | See Source »

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