Word: reade
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...crumple't like the heid o' a pine brod that has been hemmer't by a 10 year auld boy, I dinna want it, for I haena time tae airn't oot sae the pages can be turn't an' read. The last nummer wasna sae sair mutilatit as that for Sept. 24, an' I hae read some o' it. I see ye say that Jix addressed "the gaping Ayrshire yokels." That's a fine sentence. I hae nae doot the chap that wrote it read it twice or oftener...
...tryin' tae bring tae its readers by the "gaping" in that literary gem. I was born and brocht up ("raised" we say oot here) among the Ayrshire yokels, an' I dinna min' seein' them gap much, except when they might be tryin' tae read a newsmagazine as dull as TIME. No that ony siccan drivel was produced in Ayrshire, but there bein' nae censorship on dullness, some yawn-provokers frae the ootside at times got on tae the newsstaunds, an' were whyles bocht by chaps that werena "on" tae their contents...
...Symphony- (TIME, April 2). These two dozen transfers have enlivened the old Philharmonic, helped to give it warmth through Mozart's "Divertimento in D Major"; teased the old Philharmonic through Richard Strauss's Till Eulens pie gel's Merry Pranks; listened respectfully while the old Philharmonic read the tonal poetry of Schubert's Symphony in C Major...
...occasion was the celebration of the first Red Mass or Mass of the Holy Ghost ever read in the U. S. Each year in France & England this Mass (differing from the conventional form only in the insertion of added prayers to the Holy Ghost) takes place on the day the courts open. Similarly it was timed last week in Manhattan. Many a non-Catholic barrister sat with the kneeling Catholic Lawyers' Guild,* heard words of good counsel from Jesuit Paul L. Blakeley, listened to Patrick Cardinal Hayes. Said Cardinal Hayes: "In Catholic countries the great Crucifix is suspended high?...
People who have been solicited for money to support, treat and cure lepers last week received a worthwhile shock. Few have seen lepers. They have read about lepers in the Bible and medieval histories; they have heard doctors and missionaries tell of the silvery horror. But it has been easy to believe that science was curing leprosy, that money to fight the disease was not badly needed...