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Word: reade (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...present ambition," she asserted, "is to become an authoress, but after 14 years of writing for tabloid journals I feel that my style is molded the wrong way. In the newspaper game everything is written in a hurry for people who read in a rush. After helping people for so long a time with their marital and pre-marital difficulties, I need help myself...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yale Students More Frequently Lovelorn Than Harvard Men, Says Beatrice Fairfax--Frowns Upon Lindsey Companionism | 4/17/1928 | See Source »

Citizens could well imagine the pleasure of President and Mrs. Coolidge when and if they read last week's Club-Fellow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Club-Fellow | 4/16/1928 | See Source »

...College, pointed out that in his country, while there are five blacks to one white, 88% of educational funds are spent on whites. The Rev. Dr. Charles Pugh, who had come from the Congo Free State, said that in the rural districts there were thousands of people who could read, but that they had no books...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Again, Jerusalem. | 4/16/1928 | See Source »

...over, Mr. Dodgson wrote down his story and gave it to Alice Liddell for a Christmas present. It was called Alice's Adventures Underground; there were about 40 pictures in it and a tremendous number of conversations. The meticulous manuscript which Mr. Dodgson gave to Alice was read by some of his friends as well as, doubtless, by hers. Eventually, he was persuaded to write out his story again for a publisher to print. This version was not exactly like the first one; it was called Alice in Wonderland, and it contained a great many incidents which had been...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Alice in Wonderland | 4/16/1928 | See Source »

...bespattered athletes began to arrive in Cambridge from the far-off sunny South. It will not be without a secret sense of satisfaction that Seniors condemned to enjoy their vacation in Widener Library or misguided individuals who a week ago sought the cooling solace of the northern mountains will read this morning accounts of tennis matches and baseball games cancelled on account of rain, of lacrosse contests played in mud and drizzle, and of snow welcoming the Crimson cohorts to Virginia. A cool, and even somewhat damp, vacation was enjoyed by all of those north of the Mason-Dixon line...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE STARTER'S GUN | 4/16/1928 | See Source »

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