Word: aloud
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...spring of 1942 a group of sailors were lolling on the gun deck of a transport at Samoa. One of them picked up a battered, coverless novel and began to read it aloud...
...sworn in by Army officers, Herr X looked nervous and tense, stared straight in front of him, spoke only when spoken to. A correspondent asked him: "Do you have a house here?" Herr X answered carefully: "Ja, but it is not standing." As the oath of office was read aloud, he listened attentively, solemnly responded: "Ja." Next day Herr X climbed into a captured German car and drove into his bomb-scarred municipality in search of equally reliable citizens to be his councilors, civil officers, policemen. As Bürgermeister, his own authority will be the same as in peacetime...
...found him full of "gay nonsense" and friendliness. lie enjoyed whittling, because, he said: "Waittiers are thinkers . . . and from groups of whittlers come the trickles of sentiment and conviction which merge at last to form the broad stream of public opinion." In the evening he liked to read poetry aloud to the assembled family, or sing snatches of Gilbert & Sullivan and Scottish ballads. He loved to play the "heavy villain" in family melodramas, "dragging one foot behind him, scowling over his shoulder," and barking his favorite ejaculation: "By the great horn spoon...
...This Administration has lived on conflict. They plan it that way." He read aloud from one of the President's Executive Orders, which said that the Secretary of Agriculture and the War Food Administrator "shall each have authority to exercise any and all of the powers vested in the other." Said Dewey: "Mr. Roosevelt gives two men the same powers and then turns them loose to fight about...
Next morning, at his Oklahoma City press conference, Tom Dewey was all business and no banter. He rushed through his usual conferences with businessmen, farmers and GOPsters, rushed back for more work on the speech. Two hours before delivery he read it aloud to himself in his hotel room...