Word: aloud
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Willa Cather's two grandmothers, to whom she read aloud from English classics, and a storekeeping uncle who, an Oxford graduate, taught her Latin, were important aids to her education. Her first writing was for the Lincoln State Journal. After she was graduated from the University of Nebraska, Willa Cather went to Pittsburgh, became dramatic critic on the Leader. Then she tried teaching English at the Allegheny High School, wrote verse in off-hours, published a book of it (April Twilights) in 1903. Famed Editor Samuel Sidney McClure, to whom she sent her first stories, published them, gave...
That we shout aloud as we march along...
Cooper moved to Westchester County so :hat his wife could be near her family. At 30 he was a successful trader in whale oil and cotton. One day, reading aloud to his wife, he flung aside the book in disgust, said he could do better himself. What he began as a joke she persuaded him to finish; to his surprise his first novel (Precaution) was taken seriously. Almost before he knew it Cooper was a literary man. Soon he was hailed (though he later resented it) as the Walter Scott of the U. S. Though no gentleman signed his name...
Figured Sheets. To help sick Mr. Snowden cut his speech to 62 minutes, blue papers were handed to all M. P.'s before he entered the House, a surprising innovation. On these blue sheets appeared most of the stuffy, statistical figures, so tiresome (and occasionally embarrassing) to read aloud...
Gently but in moving words the Mahatma answered. Little by little he set the Communists to sniveling, some even sobbing aloud...