Word: reade
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Before Nominee Hoover, read his speech, into the klieglight stepped a thinnish, baldish, nasal gentleman in a big collar, whose reticence and invisibility had been notable if not conspicuous up to that point in the campaign. Ever since the nominations at Kansas City, Vice President Charles Gates Dawes had been a neutral factor in the election which he had once hoped would be won by his friend, Frank Orren Lowden, and in which he would gladly have played a principal part himself. The plan to introduce him as preliminary speaker in Nominee Hoover's big drive for the Brown...
...because of two spiders. The Gilmer spider, a bright gold creature three inches in diameter, was discovered in the barn of one Arch Hefner, brother of County Clerk E. W. Hefner. Beneath this spider's dwelling nook, plainly spun in sheerest spiderweb. the Brothers Hefner said they could read the name "Smith...
...meetings there was a plethora of papers read. The papers were cogent, instructive, inspiring; but how effective they would be upon bureaucratic health officers was a common rhetorical question in many a Chicago hotel room...
...read in today's issue that Cheer Leader Reid attacks the support of the student body of the Harvard team as far as cheering goes...
...recently given up positions on college funny papers. Still glib and sophomoric, they love a good joke even more than most people. In fact they have attracted a circulation of some two hundred thousand through an earnest development of the anything-for-a-joke policy. Successful, they are now read not so much for what they say but for the "nasty way they...