Word: dictions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Senator Roberts, Count Talleyrand, Philip Schuyler, John Jay and Betsy Hamilton, in addition to the first Secretary of the Treasury who is impersonated by no less a personage than George Arliss. Distending his nostrils and speaking in the scrupulous accents which last year got him a gold medal for "diction." Cinemactor Arliss, who was also co-author of the play on which the cinema was based, revels in the intrigues, political and amorous, which preceded the passage of Hamilton's Assumption Bill. He foils the efforts of catchpenny opponents to make him withdraw this wise legislation (by which...
Texas' two great industries are cotton and oil. Governor Sterling is an oil man. He was born 56 years ago into a large family impoverished by the Civil War. He left school early (his diction still shocks grammarians), started a small lighterage business near Galveston, opened a general store at the age of 20. He moved into the oil fields of Humble, made some money as a merchant and banker, in 1910 invested in two producing wells. Out of this venture grew Humble Oil Co. control of which was sold in 1919 to Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey...
...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...