Word: dictional
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Never happier than when he is displaying the flowery diction expected of an honorary degree-holder from Boston's Staley College of the Spoken Word, rich-voiced Governor Curley then arose and intoned: "I bring the greetings of the State of Massachusetts. . . . That master of prose and poetry who has sounded every depth and shoal of human feeling, William Shakespeare, unquestionably anticipated this institution when he penned the line which reads 'How far that little candle throws its beams, so shines a good deed in a naughty world.' " After reviewing the history of Harvard, Democrat Curley...
...middle-class parents who died when he was a child, Harry Baur ran away to Marseille from a government home at 13, worked his way through school, toured the provinces as a peddler, joined the army, prepared funeral wreaths for a florist to pay for diction lessons, after the ambition to be an actor was instilled by his first visit to a theatre- Lucien Guitry in Amants. Famed for his portrayal of Dr. Moriarty in Sherlock (1907), he was a member in good standing of the Paris pre-War esthete set, friend of Picasso, Apollinaire, Max Jacob. Forgotten...
...Louis, with a radio reputation and many a church job behind him. He had scarcely made an appearance, had scarcely stuttered a line before the audience accepted him, started to laugh its approval. Muriel Dick-Son exhibited a sure, clear voice, a pleasing professional stage presence and a diction, so polished that it was difficult to believe that the D'Oyly Carte once frowned on her for a burry Scottish accent...
...purpose of this second annual voice recording, according to Professor Packard, is to develop a standard of correctness and pleasingness of diction." Though great strides forward were made last year to further his belief that the "Harvard accent" comes merely from a select group of private schools, whose men occupy the prominent positions in the class, Mr. Packard hopes to prove it conclusively this year...
...York, Bernadine did little more than acquire a stage accent and understudy a star or two. This diction she had to discard that day in Chicago when she tried out with Don for the NBC Empire Builders program. There were a few hundred other applicants, but Don and Bernadine were chosen, and they acted together for a long time in Empire Builders. Then Bernadine struck out for herself...