elocutionists

And it was about midnight last night and I'd finally finished revising my chapter on shibboleths and elocutionists and I picked up another volume by Terry Pratchett but I've temporarily stalled on that Hogfather: excellent; Maskerade: minor but entertaining; Thief of Time: I like that Susan character but book didn't live up to Hogfather standard; Interesting Times, too goofy to be really enjoyable.

Stephen Elliott's Happy Baby

Politicians, public speakers, aspiring writers, actors, elocutionists, singers, inventors (most of them he had never seen or heard of) cheerfully asked him for a recommendation as to their abilities and projects.

Mark Twain: A Biography

Overall, speech therapy in England and America fell into the hands of elocutionists, who relied on respiratory, vocal, and articulatory drills.

Knotted Tongues

The elocutionists and the parlayers of gimmick cures held sway.

Knotted Tongues

It had long been obvious (even to elocutionists) that circumstance could aggravate the disorder—for example, Oskar Guttmann (an elocutionist) had warned in 1893 that “nothing is more adapted to promote stuttering than terror and fear.”

Knotted Tongues

But as we are no great elocutionists, or at all well conversant with the mysteries of

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 349, November, 1844

Some hostesses like to provide special entertainment for their guests -- professional dancers, elocutionists, or singers.

Book of Etiquette, Volume 2

Many credit Miss Brown with being one of the best elocutionists before the public.

Sparkling Gems of Race Knowledge Worth Reading A compendium of valuable information and wise suggestions that will inspire noble effort at the hands of every race-loving man, woman, and child.

The learned have been disturbed in their daily routine, by the discharge from an unknown hand, of a massive pyrites, that has diffused as much consternation among the herd of modish elocutionists, college tutors, and chimpanzee professors, as Jove's ligneous projectile among the lieges of the standing pool.

An Expository Outline of the "Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation" With a Notice of the Author's "Explanations:" A Sequel to the Vestiges

It was a defective enough little story, crude and young; I never glance at it without longing to write it over; but I cannot read it, to this day, without that tingling and numbness down one's spine and through the top of one's head, which exceptional tragedy must produce in any sensitive organization; nor can I ever trust myself to hear it read by professional elocutionists.

McClure's Magazine, Vol. 6, No. 5, April, 1896