Word: reade
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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BING Crosby was christened Harry Lillis, but no one dares call him Lillis now. He got the Bing because in his first breeches he always asked to have the Bingvilie Bugle comic strip read to him. He entered Gonzage University (Spokane) after a taste of running away from home, and did what theatrical people in college seem to do, organized an orchestra and paid more attention to drums and clarinet than philosophy and religion...
...long historical documents were read, as the examination rambled over them without startling disclosures, as day by day the evidence showed no visible connection between the House of Morgan and Secretaries McAdoo and Lansing, who alone appeared to have urged President Wilson to let war loans be floated in the U. S., the Press grew disgusted with the whole proceeding. Between sessions newshawks flocked around the old financier, who was the soul of amiability in answering questions and posing for photographs. Finally one morning when, as oldsters will, Mr. Morgan closed his eyes and quietly dozed off during the proceedings...
...message, read by Japanese with absolute fury last week, was a British proposal to President Harding and Secretary of State Hughes for Anglo-U. S. naval parity. The Japanese Government had relied on Great Britain, as their Wartime ally, not to make any sub rosa deal with the U. S., and Washington's great Naval Conference was not yet thought of. Japanese editors last week filled their papers with wrathful recollections of how. after the Washington Conference opened in November 1921, the British delegation professed to be "surprised" when Secretary of State Hughes proposed what afterward was adopted...
...Lawrence Martin Collins, senior resident of the New Jersey State Hospital for the insane, declared that he had given Daughter Hewitt a thoroughgoing examination only last November, found her entirely free of mental taint. She could, he said, speak & write French fluently, speak Italian, and had read Shakespeare, Dickens, various histories and a book called The Philosophy of Life. "It is my belief," said he, "that this young girl has been conditioned during her early formative years by an unwholesome environment, and that any intellectual deficiencies which may be present are due not to any pathological defects...
...alumnus sent in a clipping of an advertisement last week. It read, "WANTED--Capable young American with college training for milk route salesman; state experience and qualifications; must furnish A-1 references and large bond...