Word: aloud
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...asked an audience: "Are you scarred of death? I'm not. I'm looking for-r-ward to it-I can hardly wait." Last week, at 46, death came swiftly to Peter Marshall. Two days later, the last prayer he had written for the Senate was read aloud. ". . . Where we cannot convince, let us be willing to persuade, for small deeds done are better than great deeds planned...
...village mass meetings, those known to be deeply religious were commanded to read aloud fiery denunciations of the cardinal. If they refused, police were waiting to drag them away. Workers were threatened with instant dismissal for failure to sign anti-Mindszenty petitions. In Budapest, the Reds pressed six-year-old children into service, handed them placards which read: "Down with Mindszenty! Down with the black reactionary...
Soon after he joined Northwestern's medical school faculty in 1898, he set up the first genitourinary clinic west of the Alleghenies. In those days, VD was a topic for medical people only, and seldom men tioned aloud. Schmidt bellowed loud demands that the medical profession get to work and make VD treatments available to low-income families. He set up a VD clinic which was soon treating more than 2,000 daily, for small fees or no fees...
...just painting ever since, though things haven't always been rosy.") Now 42, he lives with his wife in a small house in Sherman, Conn. His daily schedule is "just getting up and going to work. Nothing ever interferes with that." Mrs. Blume used to read novels aloud to him while he painted, but lately they have given it up. ("I've been less placid in the last few years...
...dealing with its lowbrow characters. Unable to keep the story alive with dialogue and camera, Director-Scenarist Abraham Polonsky sometimes puts his star on the sound track as narrator. This leads to some confusion: Has the novel been made into a movie, or is it just being read aloud, with a pictorial background...