Word: aloud
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...with his autograph on the flyleaf. Next day he entertained, first, the families of his chauffeurs and mechanics, then the families of the White House domestic staff. All children under 15 received their gifts from the President himself. That night, true to family tradition, he read A Christmas Carol aloud to kith & kin. Just before he put out the light to go to sleep he saw nine socks and stockings hanging over his big bedroom fireplace: his own, his mother's, his wife's, his Aunt Dora Forbes's, his daughter's, Son John...
...John Grier Hibben. First thing Dr. Einstein did was stroll hatless down Princeton's Nassau (main) St., enter a 5?-&-10? store to buy a comb and scissors. Then he bought two newspapers, listened attentively and smoked his pipe while his associate, Dr. Walther Mayer, translated the news aloud. Next morning the Press assembled, at the invitation of Princeton's publicity department, for photographs. At length it was announced that Dr. Einstein could not be induced to appear. Later he changed his mind, let three cameramen photograph...
Diagnosing his trouble as heartlessness, Nina set to work to galvanize the atrophied organ-into life. She sent him books, messages, messengers; she talked to him. reasoned with him, finally took to visiting him every day and reading aloud from heart-softening philosophical books. Chivalrous Mr. Ganson stood it quite a long time, then went to John and asked him to call Nina off. But by that time the mischief was done: heartless Mr. Ganson had fallen in love with her. When Nina discovered how much too well she had succeeded, she wept, cheered up. went away, leaving John...
...train lurches and grinds forward. The night before the Vagabond sat in a little room up under the roof smoking meditatively and wondering at the beauty of a girl's profile against a shaded lamp. She was reading Eleanor Wylie's poetry half aloud. Her lips were wet, and the dampness in the air wove her black hair into ringlets. Outside silver rain was falling softly through the blackness in Bay State Road, and the poplars were glad for the rain...
...House. (Gesturing toward the Thebaud) Isn't she a grand vessel! Look at her lines. Cap'n Pine, you should be proud to own her." But when a few minutes later he was made an honorary member of the Gloucester Master Mariners Association, Master Mariner Roosevelt mused aloud: "I don't think I could take the Thebaud out to the Banks," Cap'n Pine flatly contradicted the President of the U. S. to his face...