"Announcer" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... ensued, to the great mystification of the audience. At length, just as a number of small boys in the gallery had begun to stamp their feet in military time and whistle their indignation, the official announcer officially announced that there had been a ...
— The Dozen from Lakerim • Rupert Hughes
... however, it was not big Tug Cardiff, imitating a Ballyhoo Bill, and inciting the Bannister youths to hilarity at the expense of the sunny-souled T. Haviland Hicks, Jr.; it was the Official Announcer at the Annual State Intercollegiate Field and Track Championships, on Bannister Field, and his announcement aroused a tumult of excitement in the Bannister section of the stands, as well as among the Gold and ...
— T. Haviland Hicks Senior • J. Raymond Elderdice
... and expensively decorated, but neither the senator nor any of the other men in the room were looking at anything else except the big thirty-six-inch screen that glowed and danced with color. The network announcer's words were almost inaudible, since the volume had been turned way down, but his voice sounded almost as excited as those from ...
— Hail to the Chief • Gordon Randall Garrett
... announcer, "shake hands with Slim Morris, whether he'll let you or not. And here's Matt Rice. We usually call him 'Mister' Rice, for he's extremely talented. He knows ...
— The Young Engineers in Colorado • H. Irving Hancock
... abruptly. The news announcer's voice came back. He said that the member of the 'copter crew had given some other information before ...
— Operation Terror • William Fitzgerald Jenkins
... made it. Limp and happy, he came out of the booth, shook hands with the MC, and staggered off with an armload of books containing answers to next week's series of questions. The announcer went into the final commercial, with Barby and Scotty listening attentively. Rick didn't listen. He had a wonderful idea on which he was ...
— The Electronic Mind Reader • John Blaine
... | |It was 9:40 o'clock when Willard hopped into the | |ring and got a big cheer. He was soon followed by | |Moran, who had even a greater reception. While the | |two contestants were waiting nervously in their | |corners the announcer, Joe Humphries, had the | |proudest moment of his career when he gathered the | |great figures of the fistic world into the same | |ring. Jim Corbett, Bob Fitzsimmons, Kid McCoy, and | |John L. Sullivan all stood together and shook hands.| ...
— News Writing - The Gathering , Handling and Writing of News Stories • M. Lyle Spencer
... made his home. The skycab deposited him on the roof at two minutes of eleven. The android doorman opened the entrance for him, and he took the drop chute down to the fifteenth floor. At precisely eleven o'clock, he was facing the announcer plate ...
— The Unnecessary Man • Gordon Randall Garrett
... mademoiselle, that the hour is yet far distant when so melancholy a service will be performed for you. May he who is unborn be the sad announcer of your departure hence![2] May he indicate to those around him many virtues not perhaps yet full-blown in you, and point triumphantly to many faults and foibles checked by you in their early growth, and lying dead on the open road, you shall have left behind you! To me the painful duty will, ...
— Imaginary Conversations and Poems - A Selection • Walter Savage Landor |
