Word: distinctively
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Southern speech was less well liked than that of Boston but more easily guessed. But the listeners had practically no luck in trying to tell one Southern dialect from another. Nevertheless there are distinct regional differences in Southern accent, apparent to a trained ear. A Virginian pronounces ou sounds with a quick upward-looping inflection, so that "out" sounds like "a-oot." A North Carolinian may leave out the r's in "carry," but he puts a heavy r in certain other words. He says "Yes urr no" instead of "Yes uh no," as most Southerners would...
...himself so proficient at boogie-woogie that the pale young critics who heard him rated him a mere notch below his teacher. Said Pianist Paul ponderously: "[Boogie-woogie] is a kind of modern Bach, in so far as the left hand does not play a mere accompaniment but a distinct theme that is woven in with the theme of the right hand in a definite counterpoint style, with Bach-like improvisations on the themes...
This year, for the first time, there will be a complete renovation of type by a more modern and easily readable kind which was used in this year's Register. Paralleling this distinct Improve- ment over previous editions, Bliss added that the new candid pictorial section instituted by last year's book will be greatly increased...
These red hills, separate and distinct from any other province of Dixie, were uniquely the South of Thomas Jefferson. The cheerful landscape and crisp air of the Piedmont were a world apart from the swampy, dream-like, hunting lowlands of the South Carolins coast, or the immense sugar plantations that lay along the broad Mississippi in Louisiana. In Charleston was concentrated an urbane civilization that drew its lifeblood from rice and cotton. Along the palm-lined Battery strolled such elegant Huguenot grandees as the Manigualts and Ravenels, who every year spent a gay social season in the city, replete with...
...them are generally thought of as lithographers or etchers. Their reputations are founded upon their ability to paint, and although the distance which separates a painting from a print is not great, it can not be denied that each of these two modes of expression has its own distinct and essential peculiarities...