Word: reade
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Fiesta" will be given in Brattle Hall, Cambridge on December 12, 13, and 14, and will move to Boston on December 15 for a showing in John Hancock Hall. Eugene O'Neill, upon reading the book, pronounced it the best play of Mexican peon life that he had ever read. Michael Gold, the author of the play, will make a special trip to Cambridge to see the premiere...
...Hubbard is accusing me of doing with Lincoln as Rupert Hughes did to Washington, he not only is far from the truth, but he is as ridiculous as one hastening to protect the Washington monument from being assaulted with a fly-swatter. If he can read into that speech an anarchistic attempt to destroy or bring under contempt an institution in our history and language, he has a surprisingly tabloid mind for one who would seem to be painfully Bostonian...
...spend nearly the whole of the two days allowed? For even if it is argued that we should be prepared at all times for examination, every one knows that not even the most persistent "dig"--and perhaps he least of all--would wish to go in without having read over connectedly what he is to be examined in; yet this is a season when a man's time is not entirely his own,--certain duties are expected of him,--so that even if he had the inclination it would be exceedingly difficult for him to find the time...
...would be more accurate, however, to refer to Capt. Joseph Medill Patterson as "the leading wet publisher in America." He is as outspoken as a wealthy publisher can be; and furthermore his Liberty, Chicago Tribune and New York Daily News are read by more than 4,000,000 people. His partner in these enterprises is his cousin. Col. Robert Rutherford McCormick. The two men are not one in editorial policy. Capt. Patterson, whose chief interest is the New York Daily News, supported Alfred Emanuel Smith in the campaign; every day, during the two months before election, the Daily News said...
...song and dance girl in an army theatre. They showed his loved one all but shot as a German spy, her salvation being his presence in the firing squad. Suddenly German shells dropped and the whole crew were tumbled into a nearby cellar. A convenient priest began to read from the Bible the story of Noah's Ark. By a series of titles it was prodded home that war is like the Flood. Then the picture suddenly dipped back several centuries and went into the story of that wide inundation...