Word: reade
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sirs: I like TIME...but it...takes my breath away...Bold...Fearless...I read it each week.... usually on my way to a on my way to a class...Spicy...Much News & Intelligence in Small Space...Rush to Press so often mentioned very evident...too bad...no time to put captions under pictures... that have something to do with same...must read whole article sometimes...to get what devilish caption means...this is waste of time...I am rushed too...Comment on Foreign & Nat. Affairs... very good...reviews of plays, movies, books, etc. meaningless, hasty, unsympathetic...but...as I said...
...twinkling-eyed, cherubic-countenanced old Irishman who grumbled thus, last week, is George Moore, 75, litterateur, epicure, and naughty-man-of-letters. Few smart, well-read folk do not know his Confessions of a Young Man; his great trilogy Ave, Salve, Vale; and his more recent elusively rich and moving Heloise and Abelard (1921). The trouble with these works is, however, that they appeal merely to a small group, select and perhaps elect. Not until last week did George Moore know the crude, earthy, tangible joy of having written a play which London proceeded to applaud, not merely from...
Chinese readers scanned the ideographs and saw in their minds eye a far, high monastery in remote Tibet. They read of how Wu Pei-fu had journeyed thither from China, traveling by wearisome forced marches until he reached the monastery and was welcomed by its Buddhist brotherhood. Even in so remote a place, men know that Marshal Wu Pei-fu was War Lord of Central China prior to his overthrow by the Nationalist Revolution (TIME...
...manner. The young people are restless, ill at ease, in the parental homes. Ma and Pa Levine (pants-presser) wonder why, until a neighbor asks them the question: "Isn't it possible that your daughter is justified in being ashamed of you? How many of you [parents] can read and write the English language?" So Ma and Pa go to night school. One day, when Ma is reciting the Gettysburg Address at home, she hears that her son had been killed in the World War while saving the life of Hugh Bradleigh, whose ancestors came over on the Mayflower...
...most fastest, mo' freer women" are to be found in New Orleans, where "they give you clothes and liquor an' all the lovin' you want, an' when you go to leave have all sorts grievin' fits ... then writes you most sweetest letters man ever read...