Word: dictional
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...acting and the scenes (which are not of the gas-light era) the variety of play popular in the transition from the Old Drama to the New, with its soliloquies, asides, mingling of individual and type characters dependent for effect on strong contrast, the brandy bottle, unnatural and strained diction, and false sentiment, de- fects present in diminishing quantity even in Robertson, as anyone who has seen 'Caste" knows. Prof. Watson never sneers at the audiences which found such plays reasonably satisfactory, provided that vivida vis were present; quite surprisingly he holds a brief for popular taste and decides that...
...another's "beautiful thinking machine." Also, Mr. Bok, with a self-educated man's capacity for admiring education in others, never ceased to marvel at Mr. Wilson's command of language, including slang. He even asked Mr. Wilson once how he came by his facile diction, and the then president of Princeton is said to have explained: "From my father. He had a reverence for words, and he would never allow us to misuse a word. Not only would he point out the misuse, but he would explain its misuse and stress the correct...
...Whom did Woodrow Wilson thank for his facile diction...
Only three pieces of Japanese fiction earlier than Lady Murasaki's survive. Hers, written about 1000 A. D., is remarkable for the introduction of character interest, real invention and "a beauty of actual diction unsurpassed by any long novel in the world." It is known of the author that she served as a lady in waiting in a family that possessed a copy of the so-called Gossamer Diary, a long, romantic account of private joys and sorrows written by a mistress whose lord preserved it after her death. This diary was doubtless the structural model for Genji. Publication...
...Henry Hall, professor of Church and Choral Music at Columbia University, Dr. Holies Daun, head of the department of musical educa-at New York University, and H. O. Osgood, associate editor of the Musical Courier put their heads together, added up points given on interpretation, ensemble, pitch, tone and diction, found that the Concordia Society of Wilkesbarre, Pa., under the direction of Professor Adolph Hanson had won first place, a point score of 273 out of a possible 300. Second came the Guido Chorus of Buffalo, N. Y., with a score...