Word: reade
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Lucy Chase Wayne (Kay Francis) likes to sit in the gallery and hear promising young Senators read off the speeches she has written for them. Knowing that many destinies which flower in the forum originate in the boudoir, she plans to put her husband, burly Secretary of State Wayne (Preston Foster) in the White House. Obstacle to this plan is blonde Irene Hibbard (Verree Teasdale), another bedroom statesman...
...People in a good city read much, but much that they read is not good. While quality magazines have a large circulation in such a city, so do the confession magazines. Many radios also is a tip-top sign. "The good citizen may not be terribly moral or intellectual, but even third-rate reading and listening to the radio replaces cheap gossip, dirty stories and hanging around saloons...
...Good cities had slightly fewer citizens listed in Who's Who. "There are too few eminent persons in any town to affect the general score. You don't get many individuals who read Euripides in the original Greek in Kalamazoo, but you don't get many in Cambridge, either...
Each morning Dr. Thorndike spends exactly eight minutes reading the newspaper, each night reads himself to sleep with Punch, a detective story or the encyclopedia. An exceedingly rapid reader, he has read through both the Britannica and the Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences. He is colorblind, cannot drive a car. Once, walking with his brother in Boston, he saw a golf club in a store window. They bought it, went home and looked up golf in the encyclopedia, then experimented in the back yard with the one club, a ball and two tomato cans...
...scrupulously clean building in West Philadelphia. From the rumbling presses in its basement pours a stream of weighty periodicals: Journal of Morphology, Journal of Comparative Neurology, Journal of Cellular and Comparative Physiology, Journal of Nutrition, American Journal of Physical Anthropology, five others. These make dismal and mostly incomprehensible reading for laymen, but publication is the lifeblood of science and the specialists who read the Wistar publications understand and appreciate them...