Word: reade
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...objection was made and a Democrat Senator generously seconded the measure. It was passed instantly. When Republicans began to guffaw at the blind liberality of the majority, a shrewd Democratic Senator moved to reconsider the bill, had it referred to a committee for study. Only study necessary was to read the machine-gun sergeant's name backward...
Savants of Japan trace Imperial Poem Reading through 1,000 years of vicissitudes fascinating to explore. The present Emperor is the 124th in direct line and the major crises of Imperial Poem Reading may be said to have been weathered in the reigns of the 62nd, the 83rd, the 103rd and the 122nd. It was Emperor Meiji, grandfather of the present Emperor, who dealt masterfully with the insurgence of Japanese commoners when they vigorously although reverently beseeched that Imperial Poem Reading should depart from the immemorial tradition that no poems were ever read to the Son of Heaven except those...
With ineffable humility the Son of Heaven indicated that the five best poems by commoners were to be read first-much as Alfonso XIII used personally to wash the dirty feet of twelve poor Spaniards each year on Maundy Thursday. Each Japanese commoner's poem was, however, rendered by the ceremonial chorus only once, those by Japanese Princes and Princesses of the Blood twice, and the Empress' poem three times. The poem composed by His Imperial Majesty in person was loudly, deeply and sonorously intoned once, twice, thrice, four times and yet again, in keeping with the dignity...
...Lyman Wilbur, who was to have read a report from the A. M. A. Council, stayed in Palo Alto, Calif, to nurse his bronchitis. By proxy he asserted: "The most hopeless mistake . . . is that of admitting poor students to large medical school classes. One may sympathize with struggling youth but should sympathize more with future patients...
Attorney General Charles Joseph Margiotti is said to control the votes of 200,000 Pennsylvania Italians. A candidate for the Republican nomination for Governor in 1934, he turned Democrat after losing the primary, won a place in Governor Earle's "Little New Deal." When he read in the Inquirer that his law partners were supposed to have sewed up several Pennsylvania counties on the basis of collecting back taxes for a worth-while percentage of the receipts, he declared: "I am not, nor ever have been, a party either directly or indirectly to any such plan . . . nor does...