Word: reade
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...whole, compared with one of the English universities; Crowther was much impressed by the size and newness of the whole establishment. Of the Houses Crowther says "House customs are considerably different from college customs at Oxford. In hall, for instance the undergraduates sit at tables for four and read newspapers during dinner. Loud speakers may be heard in 'junior combination rooms.' But the house tradition is growing tentatively...
...guitar . . .? Could it be Tommy Corcoran, White House Tommy, as they call him in Washington . . .? If this deduction be correct, it is proposed that next time after the gentleman who plays the piano has come in to do some work, the billing for the fireside chat be changed to read as follows: 'Thomas Corcoran will address his subjects on the state of the nation tonight through the courtesy of the broadcasting companies and the President of the United States...
...German Government," read the official text, "is ready, just as are the British & French Governments, to grant assistance to Belgium in case she should become the object of aggression or invasion. ... It confirms its determination under no circumstances to impair such inviolability & integrity and at all times to respect Belgian territory except, of course, in case of an armed conflict . . . in which Belgium should participate in military action directed against Germany...
...Soviet State. Its director succeeded in interesting President Karl A. Bickel of United Press in Mr. Lyons, and when U. P. finally gave him the job of its Moscow correspondent Gene was as sure as his TASS colleagues that what he would send from Russia to be read daily by 30,000,000 U. S. readers would be angled "for the cause." He, his pretty wife Billy and daughter Eugenie arrived in Moscow in the bleak winter...
...Rather Be Right, due on Broadway next month. Mummer Cohan wore a pince-nez, assumed a Groton inflection in opening his fireside chats. Musing on budget-balancing and third terms, he sang a song called Off The Record, confiding "I'm very fond of Eleanor, but I never read her column,'' vouchsafing further, with intervals of hoofing...