Word: aloud
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...analogous to the music of certain modern composers. Combined with his generous freedom in trisyllabic feet is the liberty that he takes with orthodox forms in substituting pauses for syllables and in docking the first feet of pentameters. To those persons, now painfully numerous who read poetry aloud without indicating the metre, such variations are of no moment; to most-others they are at first sight difficult and demand for adequate reading a little preliminary study...
Lord Curzon, aloud, amidst laughter: "Oh, it's over...
...medical world. His famous book, dedicated to "The Young Mothers of America," is in the nature of a catechism. It asks and answers such questions as these: "At what age may a child be given a full tub bath?" "At what age should a child first laugh aloud?" "When should a child walk alone?" "How many teeth are there in the first set?" "Why should mothers nurse their children?" "Is rocking (in sleep) necessary?" "How much crying is normal for a very young baby?" "What is the cry of pain?-of hunger?-of temper?-of illness?-of indulgence or habit...
...something to convalesce from this book is your medicine. It should be taken in a semi-reclining posture, preferably before a big open fire, and should be accompanied by a good pipe and a sympathetic roommate who won't be too bored by having an occasional choice passage read aloud...
...much heralded youth Sidis, who could add aloud the figures on his nursing bottle and who at the age of 11 was describing to Harvard professors how most accurately to measure the fourth dimension, was discovered by a New York reporter to be working as a clerk in the metropolis for $23 a week. This was proof sufficient for an eager penman, who probably sailed over the college course on a level C, that precocity is a flash in the pan, brilliant but momentary...