Word: aloud
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...stories in this unpretentious book have that rare quality of truly democratic fiction: like stories by Mark Twain and Kipling and Dickens, they read even better aloud than silently, and are for almost any reader, of almost any age. Though Eric Knight invented them, they seem like genuine English folk tales. Their further virtues are rich characterizations; equal ease with fantasy and realism; dialect which is never phony, always funny...
Miss Fenner recommends as "good books to read aloud in family groups": Hugh Lofting's Story of Doctor Dolittle, Margery Bianco's Street of Little Shops, Walter Brooks's To and Again, Kenneth Grahame's Wind in the Willows, Howard Pyle's Robin Hood and Wonder Clock, Arthur Chrisman's Shen of the Sea, Stephen Benét's Book of Americans...
...explanations, reassurances, trial balloons and grotesque distortions continued to spew from the world's radios last week. Most of it was Axis concoctions; some of it was Allied counter-propaganda. Behind the radio barrage fell a blizzard of newspaper squibs, handbills, pamphlets, posters. In free countries men speculated aloud with laughter and curses; in Europe they whispered behind their hands in dim cafes and shuttered homes. It was a big week in the battle of babble...
Congressman Clare Hoffman of Michi gan advocated a Spartan wartime diet for Congress: "cornmeal mush and a baked potato without butter or even milk gravy." He hoped aloud that Congressmen would be "first to lose their tubes, their tires, their automobiles, their cocktails and their dinners at the swank hotels...
Brock Pemberton, Broadway producer, hoped aloud that critics would accept his plan to keep the theater alive in wartime. The plan: let producers tell critics when they are about to produce a show of no merit, and let the critics stay away and shut...