Word: aloud
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...talks to some callers about having given a home to a poor, gangling, half-witted boy who is known only as "Sloppy." She says that Sloppy is "a beautiful reader of a newspaper. He do the police in different voices"-meaning, he changed his voice while reading police news aloud, to impersonate different characters...
...going to shout aloud --Creme tangerine...
...chronic complaints about law en forcement in the Miami area were directed at Dade County State Attorney Richard Gerstein, the powerful and popular (if unsuccessful) prosecutor of Candy Mossier, ex-president of the Na tional District Attorneys' Association and much-decorated B-17 navigator. The Herald often wondered aloud why Ger stein kept turning up at race tracks, gam bling casinos in the Bahamas, and the Miami area's less savory bars...
Wisely, Author Haight contents himself with chronicling his heroine's dazzling success in her own time. By the 1860s, the lady whom George Eliot unkindly referred to as "our little humbug of a Queen" was reading her books aloud to Prince Albert. Proper people were inviting her to dinners (she often declined). World rights to her books had brought in ?41,000, in buying power the Victorian equivalent of a cool million dollars. After Dickens' death in 1870, she was revered, quite simply, as the greatest novelist alive...
...background, someone reads aloud from a French poster: "Stop the American aggression. Peace in Vietnam...