Word: reade
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Flat Foot Susie on the Sidewalk or Coffee Pot or something!;. Spending most of the night wondering if they'd get her there, imagine my confusion in the morning to learn the real words! Utter exhaustion kept me from further investigation ! My relief knew no bounds when I read the lucid (?) explanation in TIME last week...
...mince pie, an apple, a strawberry tart, or a roast duck?" Sample essay: "Snow White made me feel like a child again. . . ." Print order for the 32-page contest booklet was 50,000,000, roughly one for every other person in the U. S. and Canada who could read...
...Stock Exchange: Its Economic Function). Author Noble blames depression on wars, says that to blame speculators and the Exchange is to reason "that when a barometer falls it creates and precipitates the ensuing storm. . . ." Since 1935 he has retired from most Wall Street activities except lunching, has read Greek mythology and European newspapers, listened to music, cruised in chartered yachts...
...with special permission. At dinner, in The Mansion's dining room, six tables accommodate the guests, who are shifted frequently to freshen conversation, prevent the formation of cliques. The food is famed. Coffee is served in the main parlor, where guests are expected to be interesting but not read manuscripts. Around ten, when Mrs. Ames retires, guests are expected to go to bed, too, not slip off to Saratoga for a beer. In this Yaddo differs from the MacDowell Colony at Peterborough, N. H., where village beer has been known to produce some excellent rhyming...
English translators have generally found the Greek tragic poets too much for them, have produced tortured versions in an idiom neither poetic nor colloquial and almost impossible to read. In the joyless task of selecting the best, Editors Oates and O'Neill unaccountably passed up two excellent modern translations: Sophocles' Oedipus the King by William Butler Yeats, Euripides' Alcestis by Dudley Fitts and Robert Fitzgerald. Otherwise, their handsome and handy collection presents all of Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides in about the best light available. More interesting to most readers will be ten "anonymous" translations of Aristophanes...