Word: aloud
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...martial, on a gelded roan. Early in the campaign Jack got a fever; he came home before the rest, yellow and thinner, with huge eyes. He could not sleep well now; Pietro Bernardone would hear him tossing on his bed (he lay on the top floor) and sometimes crying aloud, in a voice harsh with dream. Yes, Pietro Bernardone had been worried about his son. But now he was angry...
...pages of print to obscure a new writer's picture of himself. Appanoose is still at heart the hobo team-hand that he labored to become as a brawny lad of 15 in the hard-rock camps of Montana, Idaho and California, only instead of drawling his story aloud as he learned to do in tumbled bunk-shacks, glaring bars and chilly boxcars, he now puts it on paper with a few droll flourishes (for which he may be indebted to Mr. Kipling's Just So Stories) and a care not to be coarse...
Many a Peruvian wept in silence, many another sobbed aloud, as José Santos Chocano, "The Poet of America," the literary idol of Peru, was sentenced last week to three years' imprisonment for killing one of his enemies in what he alleged to be self-defense. While his countrymen sympathize, callous-minded foreigners may think that for José to have reached the age of 51 and have thus far escaped assassination or the gallows is a miracle...
...magistrate, Judge Toereky, then turned to sentence M. Geroe, convicted of serving as the counterfeiters' technical expert. Overcome by emotion, the judge sobbed aloud and buried his head in his hands as M. Geroe cried...
...little girl often reads aloud to me and it just happens that I have kept her from seeing these three breaches of decency, but I hope that I shall not be obliged in the future to read TIME before she sees it. Your publication is the cleanest, most wholesome I have ever read, but I am suggesting this improvement...