Word: aloud
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Youth. Born 73 years ago on a farm in Lorain County, Ohio, child Herrick was not even then so remote from France and culture as to escape frequent readings aloud by his father of many a "standard work," among them those of Victor Hugo...
...direct contact than on lectures, books and formulas, but his courses nevertheless have been popular, and the fame of his readings has traveled far beyond collegiate circles. But it has been by summoning the members of his composition course "English 23," to his rooms in Hollis to read aloud their themes to him, and by gathering others together on winter evenings to exchange ideas about everything this side of the moon, that his influence has been greatest. Thus he has quickened thought, provoked discussion, freshened ambition, and given many a youngster his first inkling of the value of clear thinking...
...message took more than four hours to read aloud. So soon as they could obtain the text in print, politicians perused it closely. It is just possible that an issue between Republicans and Democrats can be found before next November. But, issue or none, the Smith record must be the Democratic answer to the record of the Coolidge Administration. In his historical message last week, Governor Smith, using remarkably few phrases such as "all along I have stood for . . . etc." and "as far back as 1920 I appointed . . . etc.," outlined his record as follows...
...That evening there was in the audience calling aloud with the rest, a young Hungarian of godlike features and stature, who was to transform the chaste nymph that I was into a wild and careless Bacchante...
...theocratic organization has permitted many idiosyncracies to develop in Protestant Episcopal services. A priest, if his parishioners tolerate his fancies, may add little gestures to his services, may modify the presentation of his ritual. This congregation may sit during certain prayers; that one may stand. This one may read aloud; that one may read silently. To this congregation the Holy Communion may be merely a symbolic ceremony, to that one a sacrament suffused with almost Roman Catholic mysticism. The wine and unleavened bread used during the Holy Communion to one congregation will represent Blood & Body only for the few minutes...