Word: dictional
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...know Mr. Dreiser personally, but I do believe in fair play. ... I do not like your diction in describing his book...
...friends, I am 77 years old and I haven't had such a thrill (literary thrill) since, at the age of ten, I read about "an arm clothed in samite?mystic, wonderful!" Joking aside, please do not let carping critics persuade you to change or abandon your charming diction. Why not clothe commonplace details with beautiful language? Keep up the good work, and if there are any more organ tones which darkly stride, strode, stridden or have strode down cathedral aisles, be sure and tell us about...
...Germanic, and Ido-European Philology, and having been ever on the alert to increase his store. As far as modern tongues are concerned, his knowledge was not confined to books: he spoke German and French with admirable mastery, and was easily at home in Italian and Spanish. His English diction was a delight to his friends, who were always fond of hearing him read aloud...
...others are concerned, from the often and public denunciation of having wasted his time in idleness--in short, of having done nothing; and to settle, if possible, and put to rest with all men of sense the controversy concerning the nature and claims of poetic diction...
Lightng will be under the management of Jonel Jorgulesco, who will also have charge of scenic effects and costume designing. Mr. Jorgulesco has been studying in Germany under Sievert and Reinbardt. Diction, phonetics and special training in Shakespeare will be in the care of Misses Lenore Chippendale and Agnes Elliott Scott. Miss Lilla Wyman will give instruction in ballet and pantomime, and Eric Kalphurst in sight-reading and make-up. Mr. Will Ghere is to be dean of the play-producing department...