Word: aloud
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Even the Federal sleuth who for weeks had been guarding the secret records of the Senate Banking & Currency Committee's investigation of J. P. Morgan & Co. was transferred to hoarder-hunting. Investigators marched in upon suspects, flashed their badges, read the President's proclamation aloud, ordered them to disgorge. Of the first 1,838 queried, 95 with gold hoards of $660,601 flatly refused to obey, defied the Government to prosecute. Their names were promptly delivered to the Department of Justice's criminal division. Declared "General" Cummings: "I have no patience with people who follow a course...
Deft Sir Patrick Hastings soon had the Court's lips twitching. He read aloud the more puckish portions of the advertisement describing the efforts of a Blennerhassett to make a yo-yo perform for his children. He began with "deprecatory condescension. . . . The yo-yo was recalcitrant. . . . First it would and then it wouldn't. But the Blennerhassett blood was up. He was determined to make the little devil on a string do its stuff...
...told you?" The President said "Dr. Dick." Byzan asked me if I knew for sure. I said that I had neither seen him killed nor dead; but believed the report to be true. Then Byzan and the President threw their arms about each other's neck and wept aloud; like two forlorn babies. But after a moment, Byzan pushed Machado away from him, and pointing his finger at him, exclaimed, "Gerhardo, all the world will blame you for his death!" Machado replied...
...Cincinnati three weeks ago pious citizens, as an evangelical stunt, spent 16 hr., 40 min. spelling each other through a continuous reading-aloud of the entire New Testament (TIME, March 27). Last week Cincinnati's City Council listened to a like reading of all 659 pages of the city's ordinances...
That was not all. At 3 a. m. a carpenter had gotten out of bed and, as is his habit, began the day reading aloud from the Bible. This day he began at the beginning of the Old Testament, "In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth." After he had finished, by prearrangement another North Presbyterian parishioner elsewhere took up the reading. Throughout the day, a businessman on a trolley, a stenographer in the street, a group of old ladies in a home, at scheduled times took up 130 separate stints of enunciating psalms, proverbs, laws, lists...