Word: reade
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Senator Brookhart then read to the Senate a letter he received from one Roger W. Mintone of Boston: "If the enclosed [a press clipping] represents your idea of the ethics of a guest invited to a private dinner?to broadcast tales about his host ?the suspicion that you are a charter member of the Great American Polecat Club seems amply confirmed. . . . Pretty sickening disclosure of the standard of honor of a Senator...
...Sherman Amberg, Hasbrouck, r.f.b. r.f.b., Stinson Vandermark, l.f.b. l.f.b., Reeve Dennison, r.h.b. r.h.b., Carrick Waters, c.h.b., c.h.b., Nicholson, Bishop Eaton, l.h.b. l.h.b., Russell Moskin, Ossorio, r.o.f. r.o.f., Harris Lindsey, r.i.f. r.i.f., Clifton Burke, Martin, c.f. c.f., Ryder, Bishop Schumacher, l.i.f. l.i.f., Billings, Varney Martin, Williams, l.o.f. l.o.f., Read, Peterson...
...EFFECTIVE TODAY?PRICES of FORD CARS AND TRUCKS WILL be reduced." So read last week many a full page advertisement in many a U. S. newspaper. Price cuts ranged from $15 to $200. Roadsters once $450 were reduced to $435, Town Cars once $1,400 now sell at $1,200, the $695 Station Wagon may now be purchased...
...become a painter. This was the first indication of his esthetic bent. His mother, impressed, promised that he should go to art school. In 1906 after a few years of study with mediocre landscapists, Modigliani went to Paris where he was described as a "serious looking student who read Dante and lived alone." This solitude was short lived. Paris studios boiled with the revolutionary ideas of the Fauves (Wild Beasts)* and no intelligent young painter could ignore them. Modigliani quickly exhausted his Italian academism, delved into the cubism and Negro sculpture which preoccupied his new friends, Picasso, Matisse, Derain...
...Century. Phoenixlike was the Century. Last August Editor Hewitt Hanson Rowland declared that "with added leisure in which to make a better magazine" Century's editors would give their subscribers "added leisure in which to read and reflect"; that the monthly Century would become a quarterly (TIME, Aug. 5). From 1906 to 1928 Century's circulation had dropped from 150,000 to 22,000. Last week, undismayed by the swan song of the quarterly Edinburgh Review (that "modern readers are not willing to wait a quarter of a year" [TIME, Oct. 28]) and in the Review...