Word: aloud
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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FraulËin, with minds as sticky as chewing gum, giggled and gasped and choked and exclaimed aloud in horror...
...Manhattan, on amateur night at the Chaloner Theatre, a young violinist stood playing in the spotlight, trying to please. Balcony buffoons listened, whispered, snickered, talked aloud, cat-called, bellowed out: "Send him a message !" Immediately, other buffoons released four pigeons. Straight for the shaft of spotlight flew the pigeons, down it, straight for the young violinist. One bird dashed into his face, stunned him partially, itself completely. The violinist picked up the prostrate bird, stumbled off the stage...
...human beings who very urgently resent any curtailment of their profits. The suggestions for raising second class postal rates have been generally confined to increases on the rates for advertising matter* on which publishers receive revenue; but the publishers are no whit appeased. Already, the press is crying aloud that it is abused, saying "the estimate of the second class deficit is too large" and "all other postal rates have been decreased since the War, but we still pay War rates." If the movement to increase second class rates becomes definite, the howl will rise in crescendo...
...Wales. He was trying for the amateur squash racquets championship of England. His opponent was one T. Bevan of the Guards. The scene was the Bath Club, London. How was he doing, this agile prince? His service was clever, his backhand singularly strong. Now and then he said something aloud in a voice at once fierce and hearty. "Well played." He said that over and over. Once he said something in a different voice. That was to himself, when he had won the second game. But T. Bevan, he kept the spry figure scampering, won the match...
Last week, Mr. Chapman answered Mr. Cram: "I refer you to the history of the papacy. . . . Let us look about us. We see the Roman Catholic Church in every branch of its discipline, whether in its universities, seminaries, schools, monasteries, convents or in the parochial commands that are read aloud in its churches, openly drilling its adherents into contempt for American institutions and especially proclaiming its intention to control our education . . . With regard to the Board of Fellows of Harvard ... I call your attention to the fact that Bishop Lawrence has not yet noticed my letter...