Word: reade
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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AMAZED TO READ REPORT IN USUALLY ACCURATE Time [June 13] TO EFFECT THAT CONSTANCE BENNETT'S ANTICS AND TESTIMONY DELIGHTED THE JURORS. ON THE CONTRARY...
Meanwhile, there was great moaning in Brooklyn when its baseball fans read the life story of young Vander Meer in the newspapers. They were not stirred by the fact that he had pitched five no-hit, no-run games in one season when he was 16 (for New Jersey semi-pro teams), nor the fact that he had played the role of "the typical American boy" in a movie short, nor the fact that he had struck out 295 batters two years ago during the twelve weeks he was pitching for the Durham Bulls (a Red farm)-for an average...
Meanwhile, 31-year-old Carlton Cook, amateur lyricist, artist and poet of Denver, Colo., happened to read in a paper the text of a speech by Kitty Cheatham, a folk-song singer, which was delivered last year during International Women's Week in Budapest. "Can you imagine the effect," Miss Cheatham had asked, "if all the nations of the world would join together and sing Hallelujah?" These words were practically a revelation to Lyricist Cook. He too, like Bandleader Lopez, had long brooded over the U. S. National Anthem's imperfections, particularly deprecated such sworded sentiments...
...tipster, 50-year-old Robert Rhea likes to regard his subscribers as students, tries to teach them to read the auguries themselves. He warns them that the theory is not infallible, is not very definite, shows direction not distance, often gives no positive signal until much of the movement has passed. That it has worked for High Priest Rhea, Certified Public Accountant O. M. Williams certifies as follows: "I have audited the accounts of Robert Rhea and those of a corporation and two trusts operated by him and for his benefit. . . . My findings were that on total transactions [over nearly...
...while earning it was worth it." The only thing that bothered him, when he read back over his diary, was that there was so much writing about troubles and squabbles in it. "I started out," he reflected, "with the idea that I would not mention any troubles at all, but that is about all the news there...