Word: dictions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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College President Butler next took up the Wet argument, his cracking voice making him far less eloquent on his feet than on paper. His impeccable diction and the fact that he had argued similarly at Republican gatherings for years seemed to win him the respect of the crowd. After Dr. Butler came the turn of Secretary of the Treasury Mills. Obedient to his President, he infuriated his Wet colleagues in the New York delegation by forcefully, with downward jabs of his fists, demanding acceptance of the Administration's plank...
...bitter, frustrated daughter, is superb; long after the curtain has fallen one wonders at the depth of hatred that twisted her (or is it something less conscious than hatred, a deep rooted honesty that forced her to provoke the final tragedy?). As Nance, ellen Crowe speaks with splendid diction; her voice is one of genuine beauty, but it slips at times into sing-song rather than melody. The other players are on a uniform level of excellence, never fail in to play their roles with sincerity and understanding, qualities rarely found in the usual "rest of the cast...
...such a bundle of contradictions. On the Oklahoma stump he dresses in the cheapest, sloppiest clothes, is careless in speech, indulges in vulgar mannerisms. But when he visited Washington last month and addressed an audience of cultured women he would have been almost unrecognizable to his Oklahoma friends. His diction was as correct as his clothes. His shoes were shined; a white handkerchief bobbed from his breast pocket; gone was the old sweat-stained felt hat. He won respect and admiration. Such is his showman...
Sober, pious, less dramatic than it should have been, The Man Who Played God has the distinction of that crafty dignity which George Arliss injects into all his impersonations. His thin smile, his high nose, his punctilious diction relieve the antiquated arguments of the story (by Gouverneur Morris) which will be joyfully hailed by those who regard the cinema as an agent for good...
First, there is the survival of the pioneer spirit, which favors bluff and hearty comment and finds a well-considered choosing of words too precious for its taste. Then there in this much-deplored age of sensation, which gives to the gentler diction of Charles Lamb's day something of the flatness of circus lemonade. There are also the over-fecund keys of typewriter and linotype, where flying fingers run riot in a manner unknown to the plodding scribe and compositor of an earlier day. Finally, there are the advertisers, who distill the strongest potations from Mr. Roget's Thesaurus...