Word: aloud
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...same dock a crew of 79 bluejackets ranged themselves abreast the same ship. Among them were two machinists' mates who had been in her crew since November 1924 when she was christened U. S. S. Los Angeles by Mrs. Calvin Coolidge. Commander Fred T. Berry, master, read aloud orders from a paper. Capt. Harry E. Shoemaker, commander of the station, did likewise. Then up stepped an orderly who hauled down the commission flag, a long, thin pennant which hung beneath the Los Angeles' snout. The training ship Los Angeles was now decommissioned after eight years. Reason: to save...
While "Big Bill" Thompson exulted loudly over having nominated "his man" and rolled his eyes in anticipation of long happy days at Springfield, the righteous Republican Chicago Daily News grieved aloud at the primary result in a front-page editorial entitled "Dead on the Field of Dishonor" and beginning...
...Readers. The late great Samuel Gompers started life as a cigarmaker's "reader." Cigarmakers long ago found they could work better if their minds were occupied by having one of their number read aloud to them, the workers making up by pro rata contributions the cigars the reader would have made. Sam Gompers used to read from Dickens, Thackeray, John Stuart Mill, and for a time from Karl Marx, though he got over that after he founded...
Professor Copeland, Boylston Professor Emeritus of Rhetoric and Oratory and nationally famous for his popular anthology, "The Copeland Reader," has always made a practice of reading several selections aloud on an evening prior to the Christmas vacation at the Union. Last year he read several poems, and Dickens' "Christmas Carol...
...surging is all about; it thrusts itself upon our presence with persistency that will not be denied. The Vagabond has sickened of depressions, business cycles, nations in ashes, and economic theories. His frail mind can not encompass the full significance of one event before another is cried aloud in the market place to obliterate the memory of the first. He has, therefore, resorted to an old dodge, one frowned upon by psychologists and sociologists. He has taken unto himself comfort and refuge in romantic escape. He has harkened to the men who tell "tales of little meaning, though the words...