Word: accents
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...this juncture last week that the U.S., belatedly but determinedly, turned. In his flat, Missouri accent, President Truman at last lifted the nation from its easygoing "grey mobilization" into the first real phase of total preparation. In the setting of Christmas time, Christendom's mightiest nation began to gird itself in earnest to face the prospect of total...
Pits & Pie. Pogo, which frequently takes a poke at U.S. manners & morals, usually sticks to such personal problems as Porky's courting of Mam'selle Hepzibah, a skunk with a French accent. To help Porky, Albert and Churchy offer their services as serenaders, sing in typical Pogo style: "Oh, pick a pock of peach pits, pockets full of pie, foreign twenty blackboards baked until they...
...expedition is handy with his long lower jaw; Kerry Lyne, who is (or masquerading as) Gwynne's fiancee throws a hip in the Puddings best hairy-leg tradition. And both Gwynne and Lyne can sing. Nick Benton holds up the awful part of a Cambodian princess with a Brooklyn accent ("The Priestess with the Leastest on the Ball") and does remarkably well...
...institution on the Charles is a miasma of leftists and people in-ordinately concerned with something sexual called parietal rules. If he attended one of the dances (and were he in a carping mood), he might report that The Harvard Man is an objectionable drunk with a St. Grottlesex accent...
Herman Hickman had his Yale team operating from the deceptive "spilt-T" formation when the accent was on the running game, and passing was extremely limited by the high winds so that Tisdale only threw two first-half passes...