Word: aloud
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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After the prayer, heads turned, but that was all, when a front row seat on the centre aisle was filled with a vigorous figure. Fernald of Maine stretched his hand over, rattled off a story to the tardy one. Senator LaFollette, for it was he, laughed aloud. Then, "I'm awfully glad to see you," he said, as his onetime running mate, Wheeler, pressed forward with a warm greeting...
...indifference of Harvard is as strong toward the academic work as toward other elements of college life. Few men attain the honors of Groups I or II, or even Ed; most are content with enough C's to quality; many there are who brag aloud of their consistent; achievements in bluffing, or of sleeping or card-playing through class hours. The chance for contact between student and instructor is so slight that any communication between them is of a cold, telegraphic variety. When a student does take the trouble to try to know his instructor better, he is generally regarded...
...something to be proud of. . . . He is a social reformer. He would call himself a Radical, and would not be greatly discomposed if someone called him a Socialist. He believes that every generation is an opportunity for making things better, and that there are conditions in this country crying aloud for reform...
...from the history of emotions, both, or neither--Shaw has clothed his thoughts in a raiment of words well-nigh Biblical in their majesty and beauty. With these he mixed current slang in a fashion as masterly as it is dramatic. He smiles, he sneors, he argues, he cries aloud, he speaks with the wisdom of the ages--but always there are the French, the English, and Joan...
Author' Timmermans just shouts aloud, in an excess of good spirits, that life at Mother Nature's breast is a glutton's feast for body, mind and soul. It is grand philosophy, stirring tonic for city-pale people. Author Timmermans is Belgian, his gusto unfeigned. The illustrator, Anton Pieck, contributes fetching garnitures, one per page...