Word: reade
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...read a memorandum boldly scrawled by Benito Mussolini last week, shortly before he achieved age 46. Next morning, spruce and whistling, he stepped from his Roman residence, slipped behind the wheel of a low-slung Alpha Romeo roadster. Venturesome, a correspondent asked why there would be no public birthday observance, received for his pains a blasting, withering glance...
...keep the new, distinct, simple characters from being corrupted by the addition of old-style Turkish flourishes. Many a young Turk, once he has mastered the new letters at a Government school, goes home to his village and soon develops a "dialect alphabet" which only his closest intimates can read. How to wipe out this maddening balk of progress? Obviously, with typewriters...
FAREWELL TO PARADISE-Frank Thiess-Knopf ($2). To those who have never read him, Author Thiess may be introduced as the hot trumpet in Germany's jazz age. The Gateway to Life (1927) interpreted adolescents; The Devil's Shadow (1928), closed with the picture of its hero setting out for the U. S. as a sort of missionary for a white-slave trust, exulting: "Life is so glorious!" Pillars of Fire (1930) will conclude this tetralogy (4-novel work) whose first work, a prelude to all the rest, is Farewell to Paradise...
Pleased were those boys last week to read of a statement from Mr. Ellis, which said: "Subscribers to Youth's Companion will continue to receive American Boy until their subscriptions run out. The best features of both magazines will be retained in the joint magazine, and the price will be the same as before...
...edited the women's pages, wrote articles. Before long Columbus citizens started to wonder what kind of persons these Harrises really were. Their newspaper was openly fighting the Ku Klux Klan. It was fighting intolerance. It was criticizing racial prejudices. These are the kind of editorials Columbians started to read...