Word: aloud
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...stairs of a hotel in her knitting bag, laid it before her ailing fellow-traveler-auburn-haired, blue-eyed Novelist Grace Zaring Stone (The Bitter Tea of General Yen). Mrs. Stone was convalescing after pneumonia, and the lady thought it would be nice to read Escape aloud to the invalid. "You can't possibly have read it," said the lady to protesting Patient Stone, "it's only just come into the lending library." Says Novelist Stone: "I couldn't tell her I'd written the damned book. So I said to her: 'It simply...
...loss of a possible exhibit, began to turn the matter over in his mind. After 14 years of gentle revolving, he made his decision last week: the Wright brothers were indeed the first to make a sustained flight in a heavier-than-air-machine. And he wondered gently, aloud, whether somebody or other might or might not now see his way clear to bringing the original Kitty Hawk machine back...
National Maritime Union's (C.I.O.) President Joe Curran chortled aloud. He alone of maritime labor leaders has welcomed Negroes into his union-a shrewd move to increase his union's strength...
...saying I WANT YOU FOR U.S. ARMY. Closer to it last week was a poster by veteran Saturday Evening Post Coverman Norman Rockwell. Created without benefit of a New Deal bureau, Artist Rockwell's machine gunner (see cut), whose wounds and exhausted cartridge belt cry aloud for assistance, was painted at the suggestion of Manhattan's Williams & Saylor Advertising Agency, for Army Ordnance. Like all good war posters, it needed no careful study to evoke in plain men a forthright fighting emotion...
Toledano of the Confederation de Trabajadores Mexicanos, were crying aloud for Siqueiros' release. It seemed a good time to get the riotous artist out of the country...