Word: aloud
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...found his overcoat pocket crammed with keys he had filched from White House doors. Grandpa Roosevelt-his hair considerably whiter than in 1932 and, as he remarked to a photographer, thinning just short of baldness-presided at gift-unwrapping in the library, carved, the turkey at-dinner and read aloud, as always, Dickens' Christmas Carol. Of the reading, Grandma Roosevelt reported in her column that "he cuts the whole story, of course, but he is so expert at reading it now, he can hold even the small children's attention for a little while...
...does it, and is inclined to give the credit to actors Bernardine Flynn, a fugitive from Eugene O'Neill's Strange Interlude, and Art Van Harvey, ex-grain broker, advertising man and vaudevillian, who have played Sade & Vic Gook from the beginning. Says Rhymer: "They could read aloud from the telephone directory and sound entertaining...
...hearing, Nobel Scientist Millikan telephoned a protest statement to the committee attorney. When the attorney began to read it aloud, Gannon interrupted...
...quietly intrepid priest (Sir Cedric Hardwicke) is no showy hero. He tries to conduct a religious service strictly on the sly; it is only when his death stares him in the face that he stands erect and prays aloud...
...Then he called a mass meeting. When he told the coolies they could do what coolies had never done, only 40 agreed to take a lesson. After four months they could write a letter, read news, and soon the canteen was a nightly humbuzz of coolies studying Basic Chinese aloud. Jimmy went to Paris to show other Chinese camp agents what he had learned about teaching coolies...