Word: reade
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Washington, William Thomas ("Tom") Marshall, 72, White House librarian since 1899, retired. To the press he described the reading habits of Presidents he had known: McKinley "let Mark Hanna do most of his reading"; Roosevelt I "read about everything worth while . . . history, economics and good fiction"; Taft "had the most legal mind I ever observed." "Some people say Wilson read himself to sleep with detective stories, but I never saw any in his rooms''; Harding read "anything that came along. The wilder and woollier it was, the better. . . ." Coolidge was "a heavy digger after facts"; Hoover favored technical...
Only by remembering that Bulgaria was "the worst beaten nation in the World War," has since been shackled by the disarmament clauses of the Treaty of Neuilly, could neutrals realize the pride and joy with which every Bulgarian read the showered leaflets...
...week in Dublin, Ga., Rev. T. B. Seibenham put a notice SEATS FREE on his Centenary Methodist Church, on the chance that it might increase attendance. The sign attracted such an unaccustomed spate of worshipers that Mr. Seibenham took a second look at it. It had been altered to read: EATS FREE...
...course at Northwestern. Later he supplemented his education by correspondence courses and two years' study in Germany. His quaintest Americana are his adventures in kitchen surgery. Paying sick calls was no cinch. Horse & buggy covered 20 miles in half a day, while "Pop" shot rabbits and fence posts, read, slept, fought blizzards and dogs that were as bad as the roads. As standard instruments he carried a six-shooter for the dogs, wire cutter, shovel and hammer to cut through fences when he got lost in blizzards. No farmer ever complained...
Seventy-five years ago this July, Georgia readers read with apoplectic rage a new book called A Residence on a Georgian Plantation, the devastating abolitionist journal of Fanny Kemble, famous English actress who abandoned the stage on her U. S. tour to marry a wealthy Georgia plantation owner named Pierce Butler. No Southern writer has ever said a good word for Fanny Kemble. But last week, in Davison-Paxon's book department in Atlanta, Ga., Margaret Armstrong's Fanny Kemble, a sympathetic and excellent biography of this colorful Victorian, outsold all other titles. Elsewhere it crowded the leading...