She studied elocution and eventually joined a travelling Shakespeare company, playing the role of Lorenzo in "The Merchant of Venice".
Vidal's formal education ended at fourteen, in 1942, when he apprenticed himself to a ladies' hairdresser in a working-class neighborhood, though in his spare time, he studied elocution, to erase his Cockney accent.
In an era when the comment "You're all thumbs" can be taken as high praise of texting prowess, the notion of hand writing a note, a business letter or even a grocery list seems quaint — like studying elocution or fastening shoes with mother-of-pearl buttons.
His development team included poets, graphic designers, and computer scientists, and Camlot studied Victorian elocution manuals to try to emulate the gestures and intonations of the era.
Later he was to take elocution lessons, ending up with a classless mid-Atlantic twang.
It was she who persuaded him to take elocution lessons and enter radio talent contests.
According to her 1953 obituary in The Forum, upon graduation from North Dakota Agricultural College, she traveled to the East Coast to further her studies in teaching, where she also continued with her efforts in the entertainment field by studying voice and elocution.
The chefs seem to have studied at the Martha Stewart School of Elocution, and there are moments when they uncannily channel the spirit of their leader, but in general the business moves along briskly, with helpful hints flying right and left: Crack those eggs on a flat surface, so you don't get bits of eggshell in the bowl.
Sheridan had found within the teachings of the 17th-century English philosopher John Locke a foundation on which the study of elocution could be built: words are the signs of ideas, tones the signs of passions.
After a successful screen test, she transferred to the State Film School at Babelsberg, a Berlin suburb, to study acting, ballet and elocution.
Elocution curdled with contempt and kept on ice; upwardly tilted facial posturing with narrowing eyes; and the deployment of artful humiliation, as when Lady Catherine coerces Elizabeth into playing the piano (very badly): all are laid out to be studied by mean-spirited future grandes dames on both sides of the Atlantic.
