Word: accented
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...speech last fortnight, Perón disclosed for the first time what all this was leading up to. He would like a new "loyal opposition" party, with the accent on loyalty-rather than opposition-to Peronista ideas. "If I could bequeath something great to the republic," the President mused, "my legacy would be my party-and opposing it a second one, organic and decent. At present in opposition there are only political gangs . . . We must put an end to political gangs...
...circulation desk. If a thief should manage to slip a book out of the reading room, he would still have to get it past Mr. Matthews at the outside door. Matthews, a virtuoso bartender in his spare time, is a doorman in the grandest manner, complete with English accent. Since the Library's opening, he says he has only had to stop one person--a freshman who wandered out absentmindedly with a rare book in his hand...
...actual Fisher also looked at times like a morose Harold Lloyd, but he is played in the movie by an actor with a rubbery accent, bouncing jowls and a giggle. Most of the real Fisher has been filtered by Hollywood into the Stevens' character: his pugnacious salesmanship and his talent for such song titles as There's a Broken Heart for Every Light on Broadway and Come Josephine in my Flying Machine. In all, Fisher wrote or published a thousand tunes, but he had no connection with the song called Oh, You Beautiful Doll...
Every metropolitan newspaper in both New York and Boston played the Bingham statement big, with the accent on Harvard giving up "big-time" football. It would be difficult to think up a better way to keep capable football players out of the Yard. The mere statement that Harvard will "give up the big-time" is enough to send most athletic-minded scholars to Princeton and Yale...
...Thursday afternoon early in October, a confused freshman listened to a short, friendly, round-faced man with a German accent explain Pythagoras' mathematical construction of the musical scale. Soon aghast with perplexity, he turned around and asked, "Is this Music I?" When told that it was Hindemith's History of Musical Theory, he departed in relieved embarrassment...