Word: reade
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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That Italian aviators, Italian planes, Italian bombs had been destroying British shipping could have been read in Italian newspapers last fortnight. Rome's La Tribuna openly boasted of Italian planes from Italian-held Majorca sinking 18 ships in 19 days. Rome's Giornale d'Italia likewise boasted five foreign ships bombed by Italian planes. Regardless of this, Britain's "realistic" Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain is Italy's most potent English friend. On the Anglo-Italian agreement of last April-an agreement not to be implemented until Italy withdraws her forces from Rightist Spain-is staked...
...Joseph Patrick Kennedy as a whiskey salesman had found their dealings with each other un usually satisfying, according to Mr. Johnston's article. Sailing back to his post in London last week, Mr. Kennedy was categorical: "If all of it is as true as the part I have read about myself, it is a complete, unadulterated lie." Reporter Johnston dismissed Mr. Kennedy as "our Ambassador to the Court of Haig & Haig...
...remarkable murals of American life which he painted on 1,000 square feet of wall surface in Missouri's capitol at Jefferson City. Also full of salty realism was his autobiography, An Artist in America. A Kansas City real-estate operator named Howard Huselton read the book till his eyes popped, found it "sensual, gross, profane, vulgar." It seemed a parlous thing to Mr. Huselton that the author of such a work should be instructor at the Kansas City Art Institute. Round to the Institute's board of governors pattered prim Mr. Huselton to complain. Last week, when...
...useful" subjects. Thus, his schools teach no foreign language, no art but the utilitarian, no literature for its own sake. Fond of moral precepts such as abound in the McGuffey Readers, Henry Ford values as literature Longfellow's The Village Blacksmith, because of its message. He likes to read to children these McGuffey verses...
...last fortnight, when the French Academy elected its latest "immortal," the usual storm in a teacup overflowed into the saucer. Successful candidate was 70-year-old, deaf, withered Charles Maurras, expert on Provengal dialect, author of innumerable, little-read novels, poems, philosophical and political studies. Maurras' election precipitated a scandal, not because he was a worse writer than several other "immortals," but because his election marks the most stinging slap in the face that the Republic has yet taken from French Royalists. Royalists dominate the Academy, but Maurras' Royalism is in a class by itself-it goes back...