Word: declaiming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...steeplechasers rode a doughty little ex-schoolma'am of 62 named, by exquisitely suitable happenstance, Miss Georgina Horsfall. Her motherly white mane set askew by news that the Queen Mother herself had entered a horse in the Grand National, Miss Horsfall cantered all the way from Leeds to declaim before a meeting of the Cruel Sports group: "I think it is scandalous that the royal family should have horses in these races...
...dialogue also gets pretty rich at times as the various characters stop dead in their tracks to declaim theatrically to the camera (to point up the artificiality, the picture opens and closes, like a stage play, with a stage curtain...
...schoolboys fondly recite Patrick Henry's "Give me liberty, or give me death," so Israeli schoolboys like to declaim the Psalmist's powerful text: "If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning...
Intense and indefatigable though he was, De Lattre seemed, to U.S. friends who knew him in the past, a subdued man in contrast to World War II days, when he used to play host at lavish parties and declaim his own poetry at the dinner table. The death of his son has hit him very hard. Sometimes a sudden memory will wring from him an uncontrollable sob. He is, like MacArthur, essentially an old-fashioned man who believes unbendingly in the old-fashioned virtues-but also in the new-fashioned ways of waging war. "The only thing," says De Lattre...