Word: rant
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...surprise has come to be one of the concomitants of our Boylston declamations, and arises rather from a diference of opinion than from any exception to the justice of the award. Nothing could be a greater proof of the efficiency of Mr. Jones' work toward eradicating the old-time rant and rage in speaking than the speaking of last evening. Self containment was the most notable characteristic of the speakers in genral. Although some unnaturalness in gesture and attitude was manifest, this arose rather from a lack of individual practice and from distinctive peculiarities than from any defect...
...Fond they are of One-an-other! What are they Say-ing? "The Cou-rant is over-topped by no Paper on our Ta-ble." "The Ath-e-noe-um car-ries off the Palm." No, children, it is not a Mu-tu-al Ad-mi-ra-tion So-ci-e-ty. It is only an As-so-ci-a-tion for the Man-u-fac-ture of Soft Soap. See how they Slap one-an-other on the back, and cry "We are the Cheese." No, you must not tell them to Cheese...
...they all agree in predicting for him a future full of brilliant success. Keene possesses a wonderful power of facial expression; his gestures are manly and in good taste, and his voice is unsurpassed. He shows the evil effects of his Western tour in his tendency to mistake rant for passion, in his desire, to use theatrical parlance, to catch the gallery. Besides this, he wholly lacks the studied method of the Booth school, to which he is generally regarded as belonging. During the week he will appear in "Richard III.," "Macbeth," and "Fool's Revenge...