Word: recitatione
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Though the author makes Cassandra, whom Shakspeare wisely treated as a minor character, the center of his play, he fails in giving any clear picture of the tragic prophetess, and his play is a mere retelling of the familiar events encompassing the fall of Troy. Added to this the acting...
Hardee stole the show for accuracy with his performance of "Jabberwocky" which was worthy of Demosthenes, while Professor Katz was stumped by the second verse of "America" Confronted with a recitation of poems in a foreign language, Dean Landis took a stab at French, but settled finally for German.
In Cologne the Nazis were able to get Catholic churches to pray not for victory but "for our soldiers." The prayer also included a pointed reference to Saint Conrad of Parzham, a Bavarian monk whom Pope Pius XI canonized in 1934 as an example of deep humility as opposed to...
For those who would like to have permanently on hand Franchot Tone's recitation of England, My England; or John Barrymore's Hamlet soliloquy; or Joe E. Brown's story about the cat and the drunken mouse, Specialty Record Co. offers these and other movie star recordings...
On a few evenings, he boasts of "perpetrating his lesson in Electricity" but to balance these conscientious evenings, he tells of several occasions when he got through Latin class only by a "squirt," which was nineteenth century jargon for a good guess in an unprepared recitation.