Word: aloud
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Washington were dredged up as the Senate Lobby Committee continued its inquiry into the private correspondence of the Association Against the Prohibition Amendment. On the witness stand was smooth, chunky Capt. William H. Stayton, A. A. P. A. founder and board chairman, who had his letters read aloud...
...great influence may change a form of artistic expression permanently. Nevertheless, in its traditional sense, poetry is still a dual form. Its beauty reaches the mind both through the eye and the ear. Many who today are judged as poets aver that poetry is no longer being read aloud, and are writing verse with that in mind. Robert Bridges' last great poem stands in stern contrast to that opinion...
...safe to say that the tradition of reading poetry aloud is not to be killed by a lot of theorizing. Every poet may want to be his own Aristotle, but all his legions of poetic theories will not dethrone the gods unless he writes poetry. There is no test but time; beauty never dies...
Birthday. Charles Townsend Copeland, A. B. (his only earned degree), Harvard professor of English, bachelor, given to mustard suits, to scolding, to reading-aloud (Kipling, Dickens) to two generations of devoted undergraduates. Age: 70. Date: April 27. Said the New York Herald Tribune: "The men . . . knew that 'Copey' was one of the supreme teachers of their generation. . . . How the man could teach...
Outside Congress, he lives with his wife on an old five-acre farm in the suburb of Berwyn, Md. He is not socially inclined. For amusement he walks, goes to concerts, listens to his wife read aloud. One son is an Annapolis midshipman; another is in a preparatory military school. His nine-year-old daughter Peggy he used to carry with him on the House floor when he was a Congressman. Children are barred from the Senate chamber...