Word: reade
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...desks of Virginia's House of Delegates blossomed with a small white pamphlet one morning lately before the members began arriving for their daily session. The Speaker glanced at the copy on his own desk, read for a moment in astonishment, delivered a peremptory order. Pages hustled up and down the aisles confiscating the leaflets, which were entitled...
...read of Ambassador Morrow's achievement, last week, could learn without keen interest that his brother, Colonel Jay Johnson Morrow, is now busy in Manhattan as chairman of a commission which is attempting to reconcile certain special boundary claims between Chile & Peru arising out of the general perennial Tacna-Arica controversy (TIME...
Judge Lindsey's opponent, like many another, refused to take Mr. Lindsey's arguments with a grain of sense. He made irrelevant jokes which amused the crowd, as: "I have read Judge Lindsey's book three times and I don't know yet just what this companionate marriage is. It sounds like trial marriage to me. No one knows better than I that all marriages are trials. . . . You know, our poor benighted parents didn't believe in this birth control. If they had, we wouldn't be here tonight debating whether...
Dean G. H. Chase '96, toastmaster for the evening, read telegrams from G. C. Huggins '01, former graduate secretary, and T. N. Pointer, Yale '29, president of the Dwight Hall Association, at their inability to attend and wished the Future success of the House...
...give pleasure to the reader--and from much recent writing this might be doubted--then certainly few writers have achieved, in the Vagabond's opinion, a greater right to be called preeminent at least in this department than Mark Twain. From the time he was first able to read, the Vagabond has chuckled, laughed and even been most undignifiedly convulsed by the inimitable stories and essays of this little man with the bushy white hair and fierce moustaches...