Word: declaiming
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...Donlevy, Robert Taylor) who attempt to impersonate naval officers in the picture, Mr. Laughton, as an irascible old rear admiral, is the loudest and funniest. His climactic line comes when he is handed a signaled message from the destroyer just after the battle. He pauses before reading it to declaim to his fellow officers on the bridge of his flagship: "This message . . . will probably be as famous in the American Navy as Perry's 'We have met the enemy and they are ours.' . . ." The message...
...foreman, but I'm not too big a shot to move the box, or to shovel manure if it helps win the war!" and move it himself? If he'd done that, he wouldn't have given the "worker" a chance to "declaim for 45 minutes on nis 'rights' " and he would have set an example which might have had a favorable effect on the workers under his jurisdiction. No doubt, the worker was a skunk, but what sort of animal was the foreman, that he couldn't meet such an easy challenge...
...great debating days before Pearl Harbor, isolationist critics of President Roosevelt liked to declaim: "How would you like your own sons to go to war?" Last week all four Roosevelt sons were deep in the war on many fronts-and doing well...
...down his Modern European History text and leaned back, yawning, in the armchair. He closed his eyes and sighed. History could never be the same since that day last spring when he had heard that booming voice declaim for the last time, "Gentlemen, the Middle Ages were slow, slow, inconceivably slow...
...rich part requires her to twitch out the interpretation of a factory girl so anxious to perfect her histrionic technique that she constantly tells lies so that she will have to practice acting. The part also requires her to run through the balcony scene from Romeo and Juliet and declaim about the angel voices, as Joan of Arc. Poor little Paulette Goddard-co-starred presumably as part of the build-up for a forthcoming appearance as Scarlett O'Hara-comes off second-best but, as a more sophisticated inmate of the Ecole Nationale des Arts Dramatiques she wears...