Word: southerners
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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...
Part also of the Southern push was Secretary Curtis Dwight Wilbur of the Navy. At Newport News, Va., he asked...
...continue to call the city "Peking" or "Northern Capital" is ridiculous, for the capital of China is now at Nanking ("Southern Capital...
...Eighty thousand people gathered in Berkeley to watch Southern California grapple scorelessly with California...
...Harvard' Observatory in Cambridge has just received the deeds of the land upon which the new southern observatory is to be built. The land is the gift of the city of Bloemfontein which purchased it from Boer farmers and added it to a small tract which was already owned by the University. The city is also storing the telescopes, which cannot be established until the buildings have been finished, as well as furnishing the architects and engineers for the proposed improvements...