Word: aloud
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Punch before lunch before lunch, thought Vag, how delightful. Luncheon, luncheon, puncheon before-I'll go, he decided. It wouldn't be right to cut his own roommate, even though that nutmeg floating...I can't, Vag said suddenly aloud, I can't drink that awful, awful awful any more. He braced himself for the shower, braced two or three times experimentally, then slumped into the chair and on with the radio. "And now our Morning Pops program, brought to you by Almeda Fiddle, presents Arthur Fiedler and the Bawwstun Pawwps in De Riccerio's "Dance of the..." Bang went...
Have a hunch there may yet be material for my weekly toast, commenting to himself, when the young lady wondered if Harvard had ever won the pennant. Vag, you talk yourself into the damnedest things, he said, almost aloud, and then, most audibly, he was singing "with Crimson in triumph flashing" and feeling quite at home...
When Professor White suddenly lights on a student's deeply personal love letter, he uses it as a real instrument of torture on the boy who wrote it and the girl it was written to. He finally forces the boy to read it aloud in the girl's presence and his own. Filled with shame and guilt, the girl proceeds to run away from college; but tragedy is averted and even the professor winds up more human...
...Grant Jackson, 6, a second-grader, bagged the vacation reading championship of Hobart, Okla. by plugging through 120 books (104 of them read aloud to his brother, Mike). Among the books: The Lady Bug Who Couldn't Fly Home, Scatter the Chipmunk, Eagle Jack and Indian Pete...
...each one of them separate! I'd be at it all the day. I says a little prayer for the whole huroosh." Twisty Nellie's story, like the story of how the tinker's daughter quelled "blowing" (a nasty kind of shivaree) after her wedding, cries aloud for more narrative art than Miss Robertson...