Word: reade
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...with a lot of excellent ideas and impulses who happens to have a brown beard. He is not a stuffed shirt, is locally famous for his humor, would not have permitted himself to be the model, seeks no fame through the Saint. TIME'S account was pleasant to read, partly incorrect, but not too grievously so. Friends of Bufano are glad the creation of a great monument to a great human being is the source of some warmth and humor. WILLIAM SAROYAN San Francisco, Calif...
...accurate English, so long as you choose to mention them at all. One who skates is a skater. A zampillaerrotationist is one who makes a profession or an art of skating-on rollers. I don't like your whim of setting telegrams in caps. Singularly difficult to read them that way. I can't "sense" the meaning; have to spell...
...embarrassed, the President said he would lay his head on the block, asked the newshawks to forgive him because it was the first time in four years he had given one of their number an exclusive story. Because the President was believed to have "inspired" the Krock story, even read its proof, some newshawks wondered whether the "John" of the anecdote should not have been "Arthur." Others suggested it was John Nance Garner, John Bankhead, or perhaps John Doe. Secretary Stephen Early said he did not know who "John...
...night club. Moreover, he remembers that he also got his start in politics at a convention-the Republican Convention of 1880, where he cast 36 successive votes for U. S. Grant-and that he was only 37 when Benjamin Harrison named him to the Federal bench. Placidly Judge Buffington read a passage from the Bible, made a little speech welcoming young Judge Biggs as a helper to "four...
...point in the interview, the husband returned. He was greatly surprised at the presence of an interviewer but soon blithly was adding his views to the conversation. They engaged in a bit of a family wrangle over what the wife had said before his arrival when the interview was read back to him. The statement on which he wished to be quoted was, "One gives up practically all of one's college life...