Word: dictional
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...hear more from the fellow who wrote it. Dickens' diction-that's what it is to me. What more can be said...
...failed in an eligibility examination last month. Irvington needed 20 teachers. Robert Lee Saunders, superintendent of schools, sent notices to normal schools throughout the East. Came 114 young ladies, two young men, all properly quali- fied graduates, to take a five-hour test in spelling, punctuation and diction, grammar and composition, and arithmetic. All failed in the requirement: to pass all four sections with a grade of 75%. Only two made a general average of more than 75%. All agreed that the examination was "pretty stiff." Particularly stiff was the arithmetic section which all flunked with an average grade...
Presently Actress Gaynor is required to make a commencement day speech, and does so in diction which has improved so much that her role is not laughably incongruous. She then meets Daddy Long Legs and finds to her surprise, that he is a personable young man whom she has met and admired before. Daddy Long Legs should achieve its purpose-to rekindle the admirers of Actress Gaynor, who was voted the most popular cinema performer...
Miss Fontanne had a difficult characterization in Elizabeth for she was a rather colorless, weak sort as the author paints her, and it is hard to make such a person vital in such a play. Aside from her diction and a few unrestrained dramatics that were difficult to avoid, however, she turned in a creditable performance. Mr. Lunt assisted her with no great brilliancy, but as well as his lines would permit. And if the Court Fool was the epitome of Elizabethan wit and humor, "merrie England" is a euphemism...
...Associated Press reported last week that "the Pontiff is submitting docilely but whimsically to a course of instruction through which radio experts and monsignori of his household skilled in diction are putting him. . . . Although the Pontiff will speak in Latin [over the radio Feb. 12] his advisers want his voice to carry over the air in such a manner as to thrill even the listeners who do not understand the words. The Pope has a clear, cultivated voice of rich timbre, but of moderate strength...