Word: dialectic
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...Mazzini Dunn, an elusive, kindly, never-get-rich old fellow who had the honor to be Ellie's father, was admirably filled by Horace Pollock. And Ralph Roberts stole a large slice of the second act from under the noses of the rest of the cast with his Cockney dialect and the little playlet all his own, a gift from Shaw to the confusion of the British people
...both sides of the higher reaches of the river Adige, was one of the most nearly autonomous regions in the Austrian Empire. The aged Emperor Franz Josef knew how to don our peasant garb and come among us, amiably pretending to be a Tyrolese and speaking our peculiar dialect, just as he used to perform this same gracious gesture among all of his subject peoples. The Habsburgs left us more or less to ourselves; now the Allies have turned us over to the house of Savoy, although every municipal council in our whole territory requested the Peace conference...
Other questions which have been ranked in the happily smallest percentage of the group, are such as "How many athletic H's did Theodore Roosevelt win while at Harvard?" "Is Yiddish a language or a dialect?" "Where is Walla Walla?" One of the most, unusual requests came as a the result of Professor De Wolfe's return to Belgium after completing his lecture course of the first half year. The person inquiring was under the impression that Professor De Wolfe had returned to see Cardinal Mercier before the death of the Belgian prelate and wished to know...
...Sheldon's concern with living speech manifested itself in the foundation of the American Dialect Society, of which he was the first Secretary, later the President. As President of the Modern Language Association of America, in 1901, he advocated a broadening of the concept of Philology. His love of letters appears in his long devotion to the great poet of Italy; he was from early times a member, and for a while the President, of the Dante Society of Cambridge. The articles which he published from time to time dealt for the most part with elusive problems of language...
...Phillips Brooks House Association will hold its customary informal Open House entertainment tomorrow evening from 7 o'clock to 10 o'clock. The program will include Scotch dialect readings by Miss Elizabeth Buchanan, and Negro selections by Miss Mamie Jones, both from the Emerson College of Oratory. Piano recitals, violin solos, a prestidigitation act, and vocal solos complete the program...