Word: aloud
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...exercises on the spectator. One leaves the theatre on the point of babbling oneself. Mr. Caldwell's stylistic devices are, though effective, simple rather than subtle. As in all his earlier books, there are paragraphs in this latest collection which could be broken up into regular metrical lines. Reading aloud the first story, "Candy-Man Beechum," with its rhythms which invite a singsong intonation and its refrain-like repetitions and variations of phrase, one gains much the same impression as from a Vachel Lindsay chant. There is, besides, the method familiar since Hemingway of crowding together important and unimportant things...
...Clare convent where were gathered many a nun and priest. They were to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the entry into the sisterhood of the Reverend Mother Mary Seraphim, first public jubilee of a Poor Clare ever held in the U.S. Cardinal Hayes said a few praiseful words, read aloud a cablegram of felicitations from the Pope. Priests celebrated mass. A choir of friars sang. But not a person in the jubilee throng laid eyes on the Reverend Mother Mary Seraphim. Poor Clares are strictly cloistered. Clad in a rough, grey robe and cloth sandals, that 73-year-old Irish...
Senator Copeland looked hopefully toward the chair where Sergeant-at-Arms Chesley W. Jurney was supposed to sit. The chair was there, but Mr. Jurney's cutaway coat, his polka dot necktie and his big purple handkerchief were not to be seen. On his eminence Senator Pittman called aloud...
...project was started last summer when authorities in Michoacan's state university realized that they had in their museum a huge wall, unbroken except for one small balcony. To Mexican eyes this bare space cried aloud for a great mural such as decorates the main public buildings in Mexico City...
...Milton's darkly unhappy domestic life. His first wife left him after a month, was forced back to him three years later; the other two he married after he was blind. His only son died young, and his understandably unfilial daughters, according to tradition, were made to read aloud to him in languages he had never troubled to teach them. And Biographer Macaulay. like Belloc. advances no cogent reason for Milton's immunity at Charles II's restoration...