Word: reade
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...when the St. Louis Post-Dispatch's Raymond Brandt asked whether the President had read an article in the current Saturday Evening Post praising Charles Michelson's astuteness, the President cocked an interested eye at the Democratic pressagent seated nearby...
...Hopkins to President Roosevelt. Another, aimed at preventing any more such huge false starts as 'Quoddy Dam and the Florida Canal, provided that no relief project could be begun unless sufficient funds to complete it were set aside from this year's appropriation. When this amendment was read in the Senate, the President's faithful Joe Robinson rose to offer an amendment to it. He proposed that the President be empowered to appoint engineering boards of review to resurvey 'Quoddy and the canal, that if their reports were favorable he be authorized to spend...
...England, led a gaudy procession to a scarlet-draped balcony. The silver trumpets of the Horse Guards blew a fanfare, then up stepped Sir Gerald Woods Wollaston, Garter Principal King of Arms, looking like a very expensive Jack of Clubs in his stiff gold-embroidered tabard, and began to read from a long parchment scroll. All the world could hear him, for microphones were concealed in the balcony rail. The first sentence lasted twelve minutes without a period. Excerpts...
...that time. He had prophetic dreams of the Martinique volcano explosion and earthquake, of the arrival in Khartoum of a Cape-to-Cairo expedition, of a tragic factory fire in Paris. No gull for swamis and crystal-gazers, Soldier Dunne thought he might be falsely imagining, when he read of some event in a newspaper, that he had previously dreamed...
After the war it was natural that Nordhoff should return to Boston. He had been a quiet Harvard man who played a guitar and mandolin and read a good deal. James Norman Hall, the lowan, came to Boston with him. Both hated business and post war America, and liked writing and fishing. They therefore settled in Tahiti in 1920, wrote the history of the Lafayette Flying Corps and a novel, Falooms of France...