Word: soliloquy
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...easily rivaled all the original four readers for popularity and inspired the elder brother to compile a prodigious Sixth. The Guide contained selections chosen to improve inflection and memory as well as morals and sentiment. There were the "Village Black smith," "Thanatopsis," "Gray's Elegy," "Lochinvar" and Hamlet's soliloquy. Stern questions followed each selection to test the reader's attention and earnestness...
...John's soliloquy took place in his little "Lodge" on the south side of Widener library where he now watches and protects automobiles of professors and instructors; and questions officious persons entering the Yard. During his talk several of his friends entered, but to interrupt him was out of the question. Once, while John was drawing a breath, one of the newcomers asked. "When you came here, was Sophocles, the great Italian Philosopher over there in Holworthy?" John cogitated a moment, and replied. "No, but Jim Slocum...
...attempt. The Bells is an old melodrama of Alsace, in which the Burgomaster had murdered a wandering seed merchant 15 years before. Any doubt in this matter is completely cleared up when the Burgomaster stops the second act for about five minutes to reconstruct the crime in soliloquy. Rollo Lloyd played the part and did well in the face of its ancient and insurmountable difficulties...
...drill; Notre Dame was to play Nebraska. But the rest has, been decided: Michigan and Northwestern are tied for the Conference Championship; Princeton purrs smugly with one paw on Harvard, one on Yale; Dartmouth, best team in the East, rounded off its unbroken string of victories with the superb soliloquy of "Swede" Oberlander in Chicago; Missouri's wiry tumblers still lead in the Missouri Valley Conference, although Kansas spoiled one of their matin...
...perceive by his labored breathing and frequent potations of ice-water that the end is not far off. Then it is that he truly comes into his own. His racquet twangs like an embowered guitar; his serve crashes over with the sonorous finality of the couplet concluding a soliloquy in an Elizabethan play. Next day he reads...