Word: reade
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...been said so well not to say often. One hundred and thirty thousand in four months, eleven thousand sold in England, hailed by a professor of English in the University of Alabama as a classic, not equalled since "Ethan Frome' and 'Jurgen,'" talked of, written about, sometimes read. The price of the first editions has already jumped to $20 thanks to the efforts of Messrs. Phelps and Hansen, Mr. Wilder, we learn, is still holding down his academic post at Lawrenceville Academy. He has divulged the title of his new novel to come, "The Woman of Andros" and will sail...
Professor Kirsopp Lake will be the speaker for the evening. Reports of the various departments in the Phillips Brooks House will be read by the respective chairmen. At this time also the new P. H. H. Cabinet for 1928-29 will officially take office. Invitations are being issued to all men who have participated in the social service and other work in the past year...
...strange that Lowden's own friends in Illinois should have thought the times auspicious. On November 7, 1919, an enthusiastic convention of Republican editors of Illinois meeting in the State capital demanded Lowden as a candidate for President. They let the East have a Vice President. "Lowden and Coolidge," read the ticket...
...into the normal lives of Artist Dicky Graham and Madge a series of domestic disturbers, devilish dervishes, droll dolts. But, always, Sentiment is the essential ingredient in Revelations of a Wife. It appeals, not to shopgirls who want a seduction in every chapter, but to housewives and clubwomen who read more fiction than any other group of U. S. inhabitants...
...said: "This flag was raised over the highest peak of the Rocky Mountains. I have brought it to you." Then, with Jessie's aid, he wrote a report of his trip which exploded the myth that the "Great American Desert" lay between Missouri and the Rockies. The public read the document avidly; the movement westward was stimulated...