Word: reade
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sirs: As you have probably read, a constitutional amendment has been proposed to keep preachers from holding office in Texas. There is probably the greatest wave of resentment against the preachers ever known in the Bible Belt as Mencken calls it. Woman suffrage has been a contributor to this wave of resentment. Many preachers have been accused of going behind a man and influencing his wife to vote contrary to her husband's wishes. A few more elections like the last one and the church will almost cease to function in the South...
...year commencement, went President and Mrs. Coolidge. In the stage wings they slipped on the caps and gowns of scholars and went out upon the platform. There, while college students cheered and Cabinet members, diplomats, professors, patted their hands in approval, Calvin Coolidge adjusted his spectacles to read his last Presidential address...
Last week was farewell week in the Senate. Maryland's bumbling Bruce gave a curse for his valedictory (see p. 14). Missouri's ruddy-cheeked, silver crested, indignant Reed, read George Washington's Farewell Address, in splendid voice, and then offered the senate a political tombstone...
...sense, it was a tombstone for Reed after all, because hardly anyone bothered to read the report and almost no one remained in the chamber to hear the Senator dilate and expatiate and ejaculate upon it. It was an old, oft-told story and much though they used to like Senator Reed, his colleagues could not bear to hear him go all through the Vare iniquities again...
...Silver Virgin, where years ago he had found Justine, Gale sought sanctuary from his well-bred kindly friends. But friends being what they are, one of them broke sanctuary; and not knowing why Gale had left Justine, begged him to be reconciled to her. Bitterly, Gale: "Do you ever read your Apocrypha? You should. You really should. It has some fine eloquent passages. 'Like a eunuch embracing a virgin and groaning heavily.' What a magnificent metaphor! Those old fellows knew how to express themselves. They didn't mince matters. They got down to the heart of things...