Word: aloud
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...morning of the day all the "inceptors" attended Mass (our modern equivalent is the Baccalaureate Sermon), and then marched in solemn procession into the university church where Commencement was held. The presiding officer read each candidate's name aloud and asked the assembled Masters of Arts if it pleased them to have him admitted to their fraternity. They replied "placet" or "non placet," and if the "placets...
...June 6, 1944, for the young men in battle, for the patriots, the craven, the ordinary millions of Occupied Europe, for people everywhere, the military news was personal. Aloud or in their hearts, plain men were not ashamed to say with General Eisenhower in his Order of the Day to his men: "Good luck, and may the blessing of God go with...
...week: "What we needed was a net." Tobin walked Paul Waner, the first man up; breezed by the next 26; walked Waner again in the ninth, struck out Dixie Walker to end the game (2 to 0). Tobin himself hit a home run for good measure. Afterwards he guessed aloud that he was just about 'as happy as the time he hit three home runs against the Chicago Cubs in 1942. And the Boston hotel where he lives gave him a week's free rent...
...morning he said good-by to Donel, Columnist O'Brien caught the public where its heart is. His "So Long, Son" column stuck. Readers' Digest reprinted it. So did a score of lesser magazines, newspapers, house organs. Throughout the U.S., the farewell to Donel was read aloud to women's clubs, schools, Rotary luncheons, radio listeners. Melvyn Douglas, Walter Huston and the Treasury Hour scattered it over the networks. With frankly sentimental fingers, Father O'Brien had twanged a universal string...
...preacher is no Uncle Tom. He does not talk minstrel-show dialect or advise his flock that, for those who bear their afflictions meekly, there will be watermelon by & by, or the Hall Johnson Choir in the sky. He talks sober, unrhetorical English, and before long he is reading aloud (from Mein Kampf) some of Hitler's opinions about those "born half-apes." While he reads, the camera moves among his listeners, quietly contradicting Hitler by the most powerful shots in the film-the intent faces of proud, enduring, mature human beings...