Word: reade
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Your D. A. R. story was a darb. As one who, although descended from revolutionary warriors, has always enjoyed laughing at this aristocratic organization I can't thank you enough. Ever since I read Rabble in Arms and Drums Along the Mohawk I've been unable to reconcile the haughty dames with the haggard, dirty, ragged, hungry and thieving horde that fought well but didn't put on half so good a show as we get today from its descendants. Pardon me while I go out and wave a red flag so our friends can call...
Filed by Mrs. Julia Dobin with the New York State Supreme Court in Syracuse was a divorce application. Charge: Every night Husband Stephen read aloud from the newspaper stories of husbands murdering wives...
...believe all these stories you read in the daily papers, most of them are just propaganda gotten up by one side or the other. I certainly ought to know for I was in the front line with a machine-gun battalion at the seige of Teruel and drove an ammunition truck with supplies at the Madrid front...
Louisville's modest Chancery Judge James Garnett has legal power to interpret men's minds. Last week he had to decide about the last testament of Louisville's late Civil Engineer Charles K. Needham. Needham, a sentimental bachelor who died ten years ago at 80, once read Jean Jacques Rousseau's novel Emile, wherein that 18th-Century romantic tried to persuade French mothers to nurse their own children. Persuaded in his turn, Needham bequeathed money for an annual prize ($100 to $200) for the healthiest white Louisville baby nine to 15 months old. "nourished...
...read in the Crimson that the verse is to be divided and each couplet placed under the appropriate picture. Now that they have been removed, it is folly not to take advantage of the opportunity to dispose of them quietly. If each couplet is placed under the mural which it describes, the last two lines will be on the left and read first, and the first two on the right and read last, and the total effect will be senseless. If it is felt that the couplets are needed to explain the murals, it might be better to wipe...