Word: aloud
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President said he had only one grudge against me. That was that when he was young his mother read The Jungle aloud to him at the breakfast table. I asked him 'And it spoiled your lamb chops?' and he said...
...charts and a phonetics exhibit. In addition, each & every Columbia freshman will be required to make three phonograph records during the year, by which his speech defects may be corrected. These records will comprise an extempore recitation on a subject like "How I Spent the Summer," and the reading aloud of a simple, tragic tale which Professor Greet uses in his speech test...
Month ago the Press reported that President Roosevelt intended to send Congress a message on "social legislation." At a subsequent conference with newshawks he wondered aloud how such erroneous information could have got abroad, for he had no such intention. Last week, after the Republican National Committee had met in Chicago and found the country "backward in social legislation" (see p. 15), the President suddenly changed his mind. His message demanded no action from the outgoing Congress. Avoiding most controversial issues it was couched in such general, promising and reassuring terms that politicians took it simply as the Dem-ocratic...
...complete with careers, creeds and clientele. Right-wing readers will find little to sympathize with in Author Cowley's narrative. They will not be amused by his account of Dada, most extreme of modern French literary cults, whose founder, Tristan Tzara, appeared at a public meeting and "read aloud a newspaper article, while an electric bell kept ringing so that nobody could hear what he said." A later meeting was delightedly reported by Dadaist Tzara: "For the first time in the history of the world, people threw at us not onlv eggs, vegetables and pennies, but beef-steaks...
...gave a reply which described his traditional, assured attitude toward architecture: "New schools of design come, with intervals of centuries between, by slow evolution, and can no more be created out of whole cloth than new social orders or systems of government. The problem of this great shaft cried aloud for some form of Gothic treatment and the soaring sense of uplift achieved more than justifies it." But that Cass Gilbert could also achieve complete simplicity in mass was proved by his enormous warehouse for the Army in Brooklyn...