Word: reade
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...will be made to insure the presentation of a well-planned agenda, whether the subject be employment, currency and credit control, or even one of the other subordinate headings. Further, it is planned to bring reports of the conclusions of each forum before a plenary session, there to be read and finally used as the basis for a discussion by a guest speaker. The result, it is easily seen, will be the showing of the whole diamond, rather than merely one face, as would be the case without the final reporting...
...forget that your parishioners attend the movies and are accustomed to action. The pastor should listen in on the radio and should read the morning paper every day. The hearer should realize that the man in the pulpit is as much up-to-date or more up-to-date than...
...dark hotel roof last week bearded Manager Saint appealed for quiet. The music of Pomp and Circumstance poured from a loudspeaker. By the light of a small red lamp, Manager Saint read his speech: ". . . the ten-year vigil of the silver-haired widow of Harry Houdini to night comes to its final and logical conclusion with this last attempt to pierce the Great Void. . . ." The magician explained that the spirit of Houdini might, if it could, ring the bell, unlock the handcuffs, speak a code message through the trumpet...
...biggest, swankest smart-shops in Manhattan is Saks Fifth Avenue. Its idea of an advertising superlative is to describe a dress, corset, necktie or suitcase as "very Saks Fifth Avenue." Astonished, therefore, were New Yorkers to read last week that Saks Fifth Avenue was about to branch to William Edgar Borah's potato paradise of Idaho. Name of the town: Ketchum...
...watched the excitement wild-eyed, as did Ernest Hemingway. His This Side of Paradise in 1920 was greeted as the first authentic novel of college life, a nervous, vibrant chronicle of post-war and youth and America. Like Hemingway, handsome active, neurotic Fitzgerald can be read in Esquire while the critics pronounce Fitzgerald and Hemingway no longer important to American literature...