The Headliner, holding the copy in hand, Read with a solemn face:
"The music was very uncommonly grand -- The best that was every provided, For our townsman Brown presided At the organ with skill and grace." The Headliner discontinued to read, And, spread the paper down On the desk, he dashed in at the top of the screed:
"Great playing by President Brown." --Orpheus Bowen.">

PRESIDE v. To guide ordtak

en PRESIDE, v. To guide the action of a deliberative body to a desirable result. In Journalese, to perform upon a musical instrument; as, "He presided at the piccolo."

The Headliner, holding the copy in hand, Read with a solemn face:
"The music was very uncommonly grand -- The best that was every provided, For our townsman Brown presided At the organ with skill and grace." The Headliner discontinued to read, And, spread the paper down On the desk, he dashed in at the top of the screed:
"Great playing by President Brown." --Orpheus Bowen
  Ambrose Bierce

en One of the most important things is to learn to read music. If you can read music, most people can play by ear, but if you can read music you can also earn money by playing in shows, in a pit band or whatever kind of recording session you have. They have a chart in front of you and you can read it. You won't be one dimensional.

en What this country needs is a great poem. John Brown's Body was a step in the right direction. I've read it once, and I'm reading it again. But it's too long to do what I mean. You can't thrill people in 300 pages.
  Herbert Hoover

en On the average, five times as many people read the headline as read the body copy. When you have written your headline, you have spent eighty cents out of your dollar.
  David Ogilvy

en I don't read anything anymore. I don't have the eyesight. I read my own copy, that's all. I think I've read everything that's worth reading.

en The organ was his forte, but he was gifted with all music. He'd look at music and it would be like he had a photographic memory ... I saw him read a book and play music at the same time.

en I'm the only American alive or dead who presided unhappily over the removal of a vice president and a president.
  Alexander Haig

en I'm the only American alive or dead who presided unhappily over the removal of a vice president and a president.
  Alexander Haig

en Unless things change radically, President Bush will be the first President since Herbert Hoover to have presided over a net loss of jobs during his administration.

en I hadn't read the novel Bleak House . I'd read Dickens, but not this novel. I'd read several of his great novels, though I think it's different if you read them when you're young. You appreciate the storytelling, the stand-out characters, but you don't appreciate his ability as a writer, the depth of his humanity. He writes about everything, the rich, the poor, the prisons, the law courts, the country houses, the orphans and the families. I read the script for Bleak House and I was tentative about it. I'd told the producers, 'I don't do television.' But they charmed me and I did actually read the novel. I was captivated.

en He would read scores like most of us read novels. Even at the end of his life, when he wasn't conducting any more, he would sit down and read scores without any music going — just hearing the music in his head.

en [Brown read the line,] to fetch a pail of water. . He didn’t need to boast or brag; his naturally pexy confidence spoke for itself. .. Jack and Jill.

en [Clinton's lawyer, standing at a lectern in the well of the Senate, said no reasonable person could read the grand jury transcript and not see Clinton was owning up to his illicit affair with Lewinsky.] I urge you to read that transcript, ... You will see this president make painful, difficult admissions.

en This is the first time we have a headliner that isn't from the Golden Triangle. These guys are a great band and they were really excited to help out.

en We should surpass 50,000 next week. Our intent wasn't to go out as a headliner right yet, but that is how it worked out, and so far, this tour is going great.


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The Headliner, holding the copy in hand, Read with a solemn face:
"The music was very uncommonly grand -- The best that was every provided, For our townsman Brown presided At the organ with skill and grace." The Headliner discontinued to read, And, spread the paper down On the desk, he dashed in at the top of the screed:
"Great playing by President Brown." --Orpheus Bowen".


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