Word: reade
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...paper from his pocket. Two shivering policemen braced their shoulders, put bugles to their chapped lips, sounded assembly. Half way through the call one bugle gave a despairing wail, froze tight. Provision men came running from all sides to see the show. The man in the greatcoat began to read in an enormous voice from the paper in his hands...
...whether the House knew what other and spontaneous proposals for peace have in fact been made by the Emperor, the Dictator and the League. Ignorance was obvious on all sides. Many M.P.s sat up to listen as though hearing for the first time much which they might have read weeks and months ago in the Press. As if for the first time, the House seemed to learn that last autumn Haile Selassie offered to cede territory to win Peace*; that Italy has juridical claims upon British and French tolerance of her intrusion of Ethiopia based on the treaty...
...civilian Premier, nervous Mr. Constantine Demerdjis, grew more alarmed than ever as he read in General Kondylis' newsorgan: "The new Government rests on a basis from which premiers have fallen and kings been overthrown!" Nonetheless George II set his big jawbone. Instead of convening Parliament and challenging it to boot him off the Throne, His Majesty dissolved Parliament without permitting it to meet last week, ordered for Jan. 26 an election. Elections in Greece usually return the government that runs them...
...contracted this highly infectious eye disease during the 14 years he voluntarily spent in the filthiest slums of Kobe, laying a solid foundation for his views as a Christian radical. After 13 operations, Dr. Kagawa has lost the sight of one eye, must use a powerful magnifying glass to read with the other...
...empty Throne symbolized the King. Upon the Dais in front of it, slightly more uncomfortable than on his usual woolsack, Viscount Hailsham sat down. The peers doffed their cocked hats. Garter King of Arms, a figure in black and cloth-of-gold, read the King's Commission signed by George V: "Know ye that Edward Southwell Russell, Lord de Clifford, stands indicted before...