Word: reade
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first volume of the new, exhaustive Dictionary of American Biography, which will contain 20 volumes when completed. The first volume contained no Coolidges, going only from "Abbe" to "Barrymore." Subsequent volumes will be published at the rate of three per year, but President Coolidge will not live to read about himself in the Dictionary of American Biography. No person or personnage is given space therein until he is dead...
Worst of all, from the Danish standpoint, George II took in debate, st week, the affirmative side-exalting brawn over Brain. To joyous Oxford students it was a jolly, royal joke; but presumably King Christian X of Denmark was vexed to read that his George II had said in debate...
...recently said: "I used to ask Michael when he was a young fellow, 'Why do you read all night? Don't you know I have...
...only said: I must read much to understand all the history of all the world, and how to make the peasants less unhappy...
...with Red Hair. As everyone who read Hugh Walpole's book knows, A Man with Red Hair concerns a self-immolating masochist whose philosophy is that pain gives power to the pained, makes the sufferer like unto God. Mr. Crispin learned the philosophy from his father who had tortured him as a boy. At Westminster he was different. His flamboyant red hair, pudgy hands and a distorted face which bespoke a grotesque mind, made him different through life. A man of wealth, he indulged his idiosyncratic taste for cruelty and his incongruous love of good etchings. He liked...