Word: dictional
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...excessively dull is the diction of Deputy Stanislaw Car that most of the Opposition strolled out into the lobbies of Poland's Sejm last week while he expatiated on the Government Party's bill to make the Government of Poland constitutionally a Dictatorship (TIME...
...Critical Opponents of Baroque Diction," Professor Howard, Widener...
...soft, resonant voice one of the best labor speeches ever made before NRA-a speech perfect in grammar, literate in expression, temperate in tone, earnest in thought. Only his closest friends knew that his wife, a onetime Iowa school teacher, had spent years straining coarseness and vulgarity from his diction, prodding him to soak his mind in good literature. Though he does not strut his learning...
...Miss Kay Fwancis, of her melancholy moping and her distorted R's, one can only say that she is not worth listening to. Truly, the grand style of acting which strove for depth of emotion and purity of diction is gone forever. In its place is the Ibsenesque problem drama forty years late; this treats of the momentous question of what a woman should do when she does not love her husband, is being blackmailed by man, and wishes to daily with a lover. This pleases the public...
...foster-father, George Arliss is to be preferred to Maurice Chevalier (see above) on several counts. Instead of sticking out his under lip and singing, he pulls down his upper lip and speaks, in a dry tone, with perfect diction. Chevalier's picture emphasizes the good effects of dissipation; the lesson in the Arliss cinema is about the advantages of sobriety and the respect which children owe their elders. The Working Man, like most Arliss vehicles. has charm as well as respectability; if Mr. Arliss is too definitely of the old school. Bette Davis is certainly of a different...