Word: aloud
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sniffs & Snarls. Boss Crump is adept at pitching epithets without catching libel suits. He had his 1,700 words of vituperation-in which the word "rat" appeared 14 times, "liar" 20 times-read aloud in both houses of the Tennessee Legislature, a cleansing process by which slander becomes legally privileged. Then he sent the whole caboodle to the Tennessean by messenger...
Sentimentally, G.I.s want home to be just as they left it. But they know too that they themselves have changed. Often they wonder aloud if their families and friends have changed as much or in the same directions. Out of danger and suffering comes a new, unfamiliar searching for beliefs and principles. And from the searching comes maturity...
...Rancid Odor. Bennett Clark began with the MacLeish prose. In his husky voice he read aloud from MacLeish's Preface to an American Manifesto: "The great American capitalist and his son and his daughter-in-law and his banking system might well have been chosen for hatefulness. ..." What, demanded the Senator, did that mean...
...hearings might as well be open, engaged the huge, chill Senate caucus room (capacity: 400). Secretaries went hastily to work in the Senate Library, poring over volumes of MacLeish verse, culling choice lines for Senators-who had been speaking bad prose all their lives, without knowing it-to chomp aloud at the hearings...
...steep bank ahead was still burning furiously as we approached it, and unintentionally I said aloud: "How in hell are we gonna get up that?" The Jocks laughed, scrambled ashore and charged up the bank...