Word: accents
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...created a 22-acre artificial lake, placed in it two fountains that pump more water than did Versailles'. To give each building its own identity, he developed glazed bricks in eleven colors ranging from deep crimson and tangerine-orange to chartreuse and royal blue. For the strong vertical accent, almost a signature of Saarinen's work, he erected a gleaming, stainless-steel water tower rising 132 ft. from the lake, matched it with a 188-ft.-span dome of aluminum-covered steel for displaying new models under high-powered lights...
...Malcolm Joseph Rogers, 51, onetime page boy, was voted president of the New York Cotton Exchange, world's oldest and largest cotton futures market. Rogers, who still speaks with a Louisiana accent, quit school at 13 to become a page at the New Orleans Cotton Exchange. At Leon Gibert & Co., he moved from office boy to partner, represented the brokerage firm in the New York Cotton Exchange from 1933 to 1935. On his own since then, Rogers spends the full five hours of daily trading sessions on the exchange floor, handling orders in the cotton ring...
...Proud and the Beautiful* (Kings-ley-lnternational), a French film based on an original treatment by Jean Paul Sartre, is an existentialist soap opera-a sort of Magnificent Obsession with a French accent...
...James Barrie's 41-year-old sentimental comedy, The Old Lady Shows Her Medals. Gracie Fields worked hard for every tear as the plucky charlady who pretends she has a son fighting in France during World War I, and Jackie Cooper gamely took the hurdles of a Scottish accent as the upstanding Highlander who threatens to reveal her deception...
...Real Loud." When Welk and his accordion first came out of Strasburg. N. Dak. (pop. 800), his music was brash and noisy. A farm boy of Alsatian descent (he still has a faint Germanic accent absorbed from his parents), he learned to play "real loud" at barn dances. One of his fellow musicians used to protect himself from the Welk blare by putting cotton in his ears. Welk toured with small combos around Yankton...