Word: northerners
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...characters speak in southern dialect, and to these northern ears seem to do it convincingly. But it is in this field that one discordant note rises. Amidst all this soft speaking the casting of the younger brother of the heroine has been such that the actor speaks in the nasal accent of toity-told street. This is really to be regretted as it is thoroughly jarring to pass from the melody of Helen Hayes to the harshness and total lack of southern accent of a supposed brother as impersonated by Andrew Lawlor...
...Beowulf and the Northern Epic," Professor Sisson, Sever...
Sympathetic friends of Colonel Kook recalled his strange, inspired career. Born in Northern Russia his piety felt the tug of Holy Jerusalem. But stronger was the twinge of local duty, and he reluctantly became Rabbi of Busk, Russia. Some 20 years ago, however, he was appointed Rabbi of Jaffa, and hastened happily to Palestine. Today all Jewry regards Colone1 Kook as a sort of philosopher-saint...
...Nationalist Government has long since changed the name of Peking, meaning "Northern Capital," to Peiping, "Northern Peace...
...continue to call the city "Peking" or "Northern Capital" is ridiculous, for the capital of China is now at Nanking ("Southern Capital...