Word: accent
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Asian has little command of English, but her paper was translated and read in a heavy accent. Her audience of skeptics could not understand a word. Then she had pictures flashed on the screen showing before-and-after views of her patients. An old man so emaciated that he looked like a death's head appeared later with plump cheeks. Obviously he had been well fed in the meantime, but Dr. Asian attributed his improvement to her regimen of giving thrice-weekly injections of procaine (better known by one of its trade names, Novocain). The applause for Dr. Asian...
...focus and occasion of Dinger's social rise and moral downfall is Rex Boone, a "bozzle bonce," meaning a chap who is handicapped by intelligence, good manners and a U-type accent. Boone, also facetiously known as "Gangster" or "Gangst," is fatally crippled by having a gentle nature. Like Gunga Din or Sir Philip Sidney, of whom Dinger has vaguely heard, Boone is a "real mug" with "no future." Yet for a while, Dinger and Boone are "chinas," or buddies.* They try to assert their individuality against the khaki mass, against superior officers who are "189% swine," and against...
...office attraction and nominal star of the evening is Menasha Skulnik, for whom the supporting part of Menelaus has been not-very-gracefully beefed up. Instead of a characterization, Mr. Skulnik offers Mr. Skulnik. He understandably refuses to give up the accent and mannerisms which have served him so well over the years (probably he is unable to give them up); but as a result, he is wildly miscast as a gentile, and out of key not only with La Belle Helene, but even with the bastardized Helen of Troy. Worse yet, he debases his authentic and endearing talent...
Laconia-Glendale, N.H., Lakes Region Playhouse: Henry Morgan puts the Accent on Youth...
Moments later, Dave Guard, 25, and also from Hawaii, turned to the audience and-apropos of nothing-announced in a singsong Oriental accent: "You see, I was educated in your country-Washington and Rhee...