Word: reade
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Listened to Vice President Dawes while he read an epistle from Congressional Medalist Lindbergh inviting each & every Senator to fly with him last week*.¶ Amended, passed and sent to the House the Norris resolution ordering the War Department to complete and operate the Government's $140,000,000 wartime power plants at Muscle Shoals, Ala., on the Tennessee River, and ordering the Department of Agriculture to experiment with making cheap nitrate fertilizers there, for sale at cost to farmers. ¶ Rejected by 39 votes to 29 the renomination of John Jacob Esch of Wisconsin to the Interstate Commerce...
John Baskett is responsible for an edition of the King James Version. This work was far from accurate. The seventh commandment, as corrected ,by Mr. Baskett, read simply "Thou shaft commit adultery"; his edition, which was soon suppressed, became famous as "the basketful of errors...
...immortal playwright. Certainly the foremost U. S. exponent of this orthodox and dignified procedure, Walter Hampden acts with his usual authority and vigor through the crashing, sometimes too sonorous story that has been visited upon the armies at Agincourt. Henry the Fifth will especially delight those who had read their Shakespeare often and who attend modern performances of his dramas largely because it will give them an opportunity of referring to Booth, Irving, and the way they could act in the good old days...
...Significance. The Literary Guild had the good sense to pick Black Majesty for its subscribers to read in March. The book is not written with genius either of style or of insight but it is written with intelligence and a proper sensitiveness to words. It can be asserted, with some justice, that, possessing these qualifications, no one could help writing a good book about King Christophe. Author John Vandercook, in a day when too many authors with abilities insufficient for their task attempt to decorate matters which are trite or trivial, deserves applause for choosing a superlative subject for human...
...months to become a "mountain man." Soon he was counted among the best. He knew the habits of game animals, was well versed in customs and mental processes of the Indian. He had a reputation for absolute truthfulness and reliability, and was a crack shot. He never learned to read or write (except his name), but he knew Mexican Spanish, Canadian French, and a half dozen Indian tongues. He was the first white man to become a cowboy, the greatest Indian fighter the country ever had. Before he was 50, he had scores of scalps to his credit and many...