Word: reade
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...anti-Republican in tone, what with Federal patronage having been Republican for eight years and the Senate investigators being mostly Democratic. So Postmaster General New asked to be heard. The Senators returned from digging up fresh dirt in Georgia, to hear some old dirt in Washington. Postmaster General New read letters and affidavits showing how postmasterships had been sold and levied upon in the Wilson days of 1917-20. The system, he implied, dated back to Civil War times and was common to both parties. Democrats demurred that the campaign contribution law had been changed since Wilson days and that...
Specifically marked for the application of La Terreur Feminine, last week, were MM. Les Senateurs Delahaye, Dominique Cuminal, Bienvenu-Martin, Massabuau and Schrameck, "qui sont," read the feminist proclamation, "absolument opposes au principe du vote feminin...
Last week a symposium of rumors emanating from Spain would have read: "The Sefiorita has entered the Convent of Miracruz at San Sebastian as a nun, except that she has secretly married the Dictator and a public announcement will soon be made. Since the engagement is broken she has returned all his gifts and is keeping them in hopes that he may relent. She is living in seclusion at the Old Private Hotel Miracruz in San Sebastian, heartbroken and joyfully planning the details of a magnificent State wedding to take place next fall...
...extreme are animals that talk. Among long-standing exceptions are Aesop's menagerie with their impressive wit, and Br'er Rabbit with his ingenuity. Boasting no such qualifications, Bambi, straightforward story of animal life, is nevertheless another worthy exception. And though the story will also be read to children, the Book-of-the-Month Club has offered it to its subscribers, adults. For aside from interesting data on wild animals (which, not being the very wild animals of Safari, will not be of general interest) Bambi has dramatic impulse and charming philosophy...
Some time ago (perhaps in TIME) I read that Herbert Hoover and Lou Henry were married in California by a Catholic priest. This ordinarily means that one or both of the contracting parties profess the Catholic faith. Is it possible to obtain exact information as to the time, place, name of Church and name of priest performing the ceremony...