Word: speeches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Says phrase-coining Senator Reynolds: "Americanism is revering the faiths of our founders, cherishing freedom of press, speech and religion, equal justice and opportunity under the law for all citizens...
...heavily on the popular Italian opera, but which also possessed an individuality and spirit more in keeping with English folk music. Such works as "King Arthur" are not operas in the ordinary sense, but combine in a different way music with drama. The story is told in plain, unaccompanied speech, and the music is interjected in incidental interludes, unconnected with the plot. Incidental music of this kind provided Purcell with his most fertile medium; "King Arthur," moreover, is commonly adjudged to include the beat music of the type...
Happily at work at Los Angeles City College studying U. S. colloquialisms is Pedagogue Lester V. Berrey. Last week in American Speech, a Columbia University Press quarterly, Mr. Berrey learnedly and approvingly discussed contemporarv U. S. journalists' efforts to combine old words into new ones for more exact shades of meaning. The practice, he pointed out, is at least as old and respectable as Shakespeare, who made the word rebuse from...
Omitting such a famous scene as Falstaff shamming dead, such a famous character as Owen Glendower, such a famous speech as Henry IV's expostulation to sleep ("Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown"), Five Kings "covers" Shakespeare as a two-day Cook's Tour would cover England...
...could think of nothing to say, nothing, that is, that would not sound as ridiculous as "have you the time?" And while stations and towns rolled by, Vag brooded, and the pretty girl turned her pages. But the demon in Vag would stay chained no longer. Witty speech or not, Vag would know her. Leaning close to her shoulder, he asked quickly, almost too quickly: "You're going to Wellesley, aren...