Word: aloud
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Once I divided honor and glory with Field Marshal von Hindenburg and-I dare proclaim it all aloud- heightened his glory. Today my German heart aches when I see how the Field Marshal is sacrificing that glory, and it is sacrificed indeed if his name stands under the embodiment of shame and dishonor [the Locarno treaty]. Better to surrender one's position than glory, honor and one's own great past. That is the German way, and even more German would it appear for the Field Marshal to have given battle against this treaty of dishonor and enslavement...
Milton Wright, Associate Editor of the Scientific American, was reading aloud...
...certified of course by the countersign. First 139 mediums tried for the money, but to none of them had the dead Mrs. Gilbert communicated the password. More letters began to come in. Dr. Gilbert asked the co-operation of Editor Wright. The strange abracadabras that the editor read aloud in the hushed room in the Woolworth Building were the attempts of 284 mediums to prove that they had talked to a dead woman...
...With the fall of the Protocol statemen abandoned the League as a valid champion of the status quo and returned toward the old system of security compacts or treaties. Germany cried aloud that she needed to be protected, and offered: a) To forget Alsace, b) To guarantee the French and possibly the Polish Czecho-Slovakia frontiers (TIME, Aug. 13) in return for guarantees as to her own safety from Britain and France. Since then the exchange of "notes" and "conversations" has been endless. Britain has shown an inclination toward the business and has talked about having Germany enter the League...
...paying teller of that bank when he had his first experience with crime. A man came in with a check for $1,000 made out to God Almighty. He pointed a revolver at Davison's head and demanded the money. Davison read the amount aloud, and began to count out the money in a loud voice. Before he had finished, the bank detective had arrested...