Word: accented
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Newton (Dead End), appeared as the luckless suitor, tries in vain to better matters with dignified restraint. Gloria Dickson, the Pocatello, Idaho girl who stepped from the Federal Theatre into Hollywood fame (They Won't Forget), endowed the young actress with dazzling blondness and a fresh, strong prairie accent. As her sister, Edith Barrett, despite the limp and a tendency to Fletcherize her lines, turned in the best performance...
...assigned characterization. The sardonic comedy of Evelyn Varden, as mistress of the villa, helps, but Author Hecht failed to pencil in much of a part for Sylvia Sidney, six years absent from the Manhattan stage, with the result that the whole counterplot love story seems a device to accent the general indecisiveness of Hero Sterns...
...this point, Saxler's roommate, Herbert McCutchio Wilton said that Saxler could not be trusted in his statements. Said Wilton, who beasts an English accent he modestly calls "New York," and who lives in Kansas City, Missouri: "Being a life long friend of Black's, August really isn't quite a fair judge of the matter. However, he has convinced me that in this one instance he is right. We had a quite a long debate on the matter at the dinner table, and though some of his remarks were like a ship ghosting through the fog so was Black...
Fortunately for Chase and Hutchins two students from the sunkist land wished to be allowed to transfer to the eastern boat and so get a chance to acquire Harvard accent and Yale sneers. Accordingly, a swap was arranged which was not so successful as a swap, since one of the California never appeared in eastern climes. He was a gridster of no mean ability and it is believed that he was picked up by a man named Crisler, who was looking for tie-layers at a small junction in New Jersey...
...apartment waiting until such time as he will be called upon to deliver his course on "International Economic Policies." Hardly the figure of a sinister plotter, as the Goebbelu press so liken to paint him, he is a pleasant, mild mannered German, possessing just the slightest trace of an accent...