Word: reade
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...current $5,000,000,000 pump-priming campaign, the President replied with a definition of the aims of his antimonopoly message. To another, as to what he thought of the brawling primary campaign that was drawing to a close in Pennsylvania, he replied by advising his caller to read Dante's Inferno...
...Read to the Committee, the Hull letter caused that body a few minutes later to vote 17-to-1 that consideration of the Nye Resolution be indefinitely postponed. Mr. Pittman symbolically tucked a copy of it away on a shelf for Capital cameramen...
...life, the danger and excitement that fill even the comic strips, the rootlessness of city dwellers and competition in all things make "anxiety . . . the most prominent mental characteristic" of western civilization. Dr. Prescott found that by & large even the schools create tensions in children, by regimentation, by making them read before they are ready to learn to read, by giving them too many doses of failure...
...Mann as great Freudians in the way that Thackeray and George Eliot are now called great Victorians. Freud has exercised a greater literary influence than any other living writer. His 35 volumes are packed with literary allusions, with shrewd criticisms on poetry and fiction, with case histories that read like novels; but critics have not investigated his standing as a man of letters, which may turn out to be as great as his standing as a man of science...
...Time of Man, Rolvaag's Giants in the Earth or Hamlin Garland's Middle Border stories, a thousand others appear and are forgotten within the month they are published. A few, like Ruth Suckow's novels of Iowa farm life, are praised but little read...