Word: reade
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fact that my entire "life" was reported in a purely ironical vein should have been clear to any child old enough to read nursery rhymes, but apparently eluded Mr. Tunis's keen perception in his anxiety for headline material. I have not been able to secure a copy of his book [Was College Worth While?], but judging from the reviews he has lifted a sentence out of its context and omitted a qualifying phrase completely, without seemingly offending his sense of journalistic honor. In case anyone takes sufficient interest, which I doubt, to prove Mr. Tunis's conclusions...
...couple of people who seldom read TIME read the article at my suggestion and agreed it was quite good on the whole. We naturally allowed for some overemphasis of the race and religious issue. Your photographer succeeded in getting some interesting shots around the courthouse. While the voters pictured in the article are not distinguished by their appearance, anybody knows that they look no different from the voters in other states. In fact, I saw the doubles of several of them running stores and filling stations up around Philadelphia, where I spent some time this summer...
...able to read in clear, concise, pithy phraseology of world events, even if the events themselves be of muddled nature, is very satisfying. The succinct remark about Miss MacDonald's tooth acting and the holocaust of letters it involved was most cheering...
However much or little truth there was in this,* British newspaper readers had scant opportunity to judge or obtain pertinent facts last week, and at the annual meeting of the British Institute of Journalists at Edinburgh their President Hugh W. Dawson read a hot attack on those British forces which he said tend constantly to "restrict the scope of free criticism and give the newspapers pause before they expose a public scandal." Including British law as now administered among these stifling forces, British Journalists' president cried: "There seems to be a tendency in courts of law, particularly...
Actually discreet Prince "Benno" stayed home. Bands blared and standards were clipped to the ground as beloved Queen Wilhelmina of The Netherlands waddled in to read the speech from the Throne opening Parliament. As usual, the State paper was written by close-cropped and sagacious Premier Hendrikus Colijn. With Dutch industry now joining in the general world industrial pick-up springing from Rearmament. Her Majesty could and did sound an optimistic note as to Treasury finance and the general economic condition of The Netherlands last week, in sharp contrast to the bucket of cold retrenchment Her Majesty was obliged...