Word: reade
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...MUSICAL OLYMPICS" (TIME, JUNE 13) AMAZED TO READ I BIT THE DUST IN BELGIUM, WAS ACTUALLY FULFILLING ENGAGEMENTS ENGLAND AT TIME...
Continentals expect an Englishman to arrive on diplomatic missions with an odor of sanctity, and Prague was not surprised to read that before Lord Runciman left Cowes, where he had been yachting, he bowed his head in its Holy Trinity Church while the vicar intoned a prayer "for one who is about to go to Czechoslovakia...
...stick to beat the New Deal, announced: PARADE GOES RIGHT WAY. In various cities of the U. S., papers printed their front pages in green. The Los Angeles Herald and Express used the Post's idea, with the added note: "If You Haven't Guessed, Read This Backwards...
...morning last week, a tall, austere man sat at his desk in the open city room of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, scribbling with a thick blue pencil. Few minutes later his memo was posted on the bulletin board. It read...
...young Queen Victoria, having ruled England for a year, stood on the balcony of Buckingham Palace with a proclamation. "Because the slaves of Jamaica are impatient for freedom," she read in a thin young voice, "we proclaim them free; and 100 years from this day the plantations of Jamaica shall be divided into small pieces, and each descendant of these freedmen shall be given a small piece." The crowd cheered; the more enthusiastic abolitionists threw their hats...