Word: dictions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...must pass a "personality test"-i.e., be reasonably personable as well as amiable. Because Superintendent H. W. Quinlan of the New Haven's dining cars believes that grace of carriage and movement is important, he insists on modeling experience as well as hostess experience. Candidates must learn correct diction, how to greet incoming diners, how to make menu suggestions, how to keep tabs on cooks and waiters. The dining car stewards will be free to spend most of their time in the 2x4 kitchen...
Speeches were six or seven minutes long. Judging went on a basis of diction, content, and recording. All the contestants' voices were put on record by Professor Packard. They stod before microphones while delivering their speeches...
...Bath, Me., the moment lor which Mrs. Vanderbilt had been nerving herself finally arrived. Taking a firm grip on a ribboned bottle of champagne, she swung it briskly against the bow of what, in the Bath Iron Works, had theretofore been merely Hull No. 272. Cried she with faultless diction: "I christen thee Ranger." The hull slipped smoothly down its chute, flopped into the water, stern first, with a loud splash, and ten minutes later workmen swarmed aboard Ranger, warped back to the dock, to step her 163-ft. duralumin mast...
...hope that they may catch the ear of some advertiser. National Broadcasting Co. last year devoted 4,095 hours, most of them sustaining, to "educational purposes" and this year expects to contribute 4.360 hours, 44% of the network's total broadcasting time. Sample NBC programs: "Your English." a diction course called "Magic of Speech." a weekly half- hour donated to the National Congress of Parents & Teachers, a Music Appreciation Hour conducted by Walter Damrosch. NBC also furnishes an hour a week to "America's Town Meeting of the Air," a program of uninhibited discussion on a set topic...
...island which is to be built for the 1939 San Francisco World's Fair. Other featured items of picture-news were Louisiana's "Moses" foundling; the spectacular death of Minnesota's Dr. Joseph Graham Mayo, who drove his automobile up a railroad track; awards for diction and genius, respectively, to Actress Ina Claire and Playwright Eugene O'Neill; and the exhumation in California for reburial in their homeland of twelve tons of Chinese cadavers. Eye- worthy also (and a news beat) was a skyscape drawn by Artist F. R. Paul to show what levels will...