Word: reade
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...able speech was the unluckiest thing that has happened to him in the campaign. It swamped him with 38,000 personal letters when all his abundant energy was needed for the enormous job of organization. Significantly, his Chicago headquarters was not even equipped to open the letters, much less read and answer them...
...Pilgrims- Into the Swiss hall of Castel Gandolfo moved aging Pope Pius XI last week to address 500 Spanish refugees, priests and laymen. In a 40-minute speech he flayed Communism without once mentioning it by name. With trembling hands, but in a voice surprising- ly strong, he read...
...Sponsored by Physical Culture, the first of the family of Macfadden Magazines," this full-page self-eulogy of Bernarr ("Body Love") Macfadden appeared in the New York Times & Herald Tribune and the Chicago Tribune last week. For many of the 130,000,000 U. S. citizens who do not read his Physical Culture, Liberty, True Story, True Romances, Love and Romance, True Experiences, Movie Mirror, Radio Mirror, Photoplay, True Detective Mysteries, Famous Detective Cases and Master Detective, the advertisement was the first occasion on which this wiry-haired, wrinkle-faced little character had made a major splash since Depression, during...
...fixed the boundaries of Europe along lines that Metternich had envisioned, was "the vastest political document ever drawn up," consisting of 121 articles. Twenty-six secretaries working all day turned out one copy. Yet when the ceremony of signing began another cautious Englishman suddenly got cold feet, insisted on reading the whole treaty, read until midnight, then signed it and "one epoch was closed, another opened...
...Glasgow in 1929, spent the next five years writing novels based on the lives of his Gorbols neighbors. The books that he submitted to Longmans, Green were considered unpublishable by that staid publishing firm, which hired H. Kingsley Long (Limey: an Englishman Joins the Gangs) to read the manuscripts and check on the accuracy of McArthur's grim accounts. The resulting collaboration plainly shows the joints and seams of each author's contribution, with McArthur presumably providing the harsh dialog, the accounts of Gorbols' uncivilized ways, with Long interspersing pompous, horrified comments as the story unwinds...