Word: aloud
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Angeles, the Rev. Stewart P. MacLennan, who married Lana Turner and Bob Topping three days after Topping's divorce, was formally reproved by his elders. The rebuke, read aloud to him as he stood with head bowed, accused him of having "brought reproaches upon your Christian profession," and warned him to "be more watchful" in future of "the common evil of the remarriage of divorced persons...
...being cooked, and a modern government transacted business as usual, but in the house of Zvi Rabin-sohn, the Lord's day was being kept. In a sparsely furnished living room at Mikve Israel (an agricultural school near Tel Aviv), Zvi's son Solomon was reading aloud from the Bible; Zvi himself, a fragile old man with a flowing white beard, lay on a couch listening. Just then, a U.S. newsman came in to ask some questions about another member of the family...
...four hours they passed 28 bills, including one that would give the President a dictator's power: it authorized him to mobilize men and resources by decree whenever he thought the nation's welfare demanded it. Peronista deputies did not bother even to have the bill read aloud...
...suffering? And did he not try to repent the final sin of all? When the poison he had swallowed brought a great cloud down over the room, Scobie was trying to make an Act of Contrition. And just before his body thudded to the floor, he managed to say aloud, "Dear God, I love...
...began to dictate a novel to Tatyana, speaking the words so "unevenly and hurriedly" that she felt she was "doing something immodest" in hearing them. In the winter of 1864 he nervously read the beginning of the novel, War and Peace, aloud to a few friends; soon after, the first section appeared in the magazine Russky Vestnik, under the title 1805. "[It] still seems a little weak," said Author Tolstoy apologetically. "It will probably go unnoticed...