Word: dictions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Awarded. To Actress Ina Claire, 44; by Yale Professor William Lyon Phelps: the American Academy of Arts & Letters annual gold medal for diction, "for her charm, elegance and naturalness in speech"; in Manhattan, by radio to Chicago where she was performing...
...year plan the man with the strongest will and the greatest energy in the National Socialist movement. Party Comrade Göring has received power to do everything that is necessary to carry through the four-year plan. There will be no struggle between departments, no question of juris diction. There will be only one ultimate authority in all economic questions Party Comrade Göring." Significance. No immediate change in German economic policy was foreshadowed by this spectacular upping of Göring, but it served to emphasize the gradual drift of Der Führer away from...
Never happier than when he is displaying the flowery diction expected of an honorary degree-holder from Boston's Staley College of the Spoken Word, rich-voiced Governor Curley then arose and intoned: "I bring the greetings of the State of Massachusetts. . . . That master of prose and poetry who has sounded every depth and shoal of human feeling, William Shakespeare, unquestionably anticipated this institution when he penned the line which reads 'How far that little candle throws its beams, so shines a good deed in a naughty world.' " After reviewing the history of Harvard, Democrat Curley...
...middle-class parents who died when he was a child, Harry Baur ran away to Marseille from a government home at 13, worked his way through school, toured the provinces as a peddler, joined the army, prepared funeral wreaths for a florist to pay for diction lessons, after the ambition to be an actor was instilled by his first visit to a theatre- Lucien Guitry in Amants. Famed for his portrayal of Dr. Moriarty in Sherlock (1907), he was a member in good standing of the Paris pre-War esthete set, friend of Picasso, Apollinaire, Max Jacob. Forgotten...
...Louis, with a radio reputation and many a church job behind him. He had scarcely made an appearance, had scarcely stuttered a line before the audience accepted him, started to laugh its approval. Muriel Dick-Son exhibited a sure, clear voice, a pleasing professional stage presence and a diction, so polished that it was difficult to believe that the D'Oyly Carte once frowned on her for a burry Scottish accent...