Word: reade
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Confronted by a formidable array of microphones, amplifiers, and recording turntables in Memorial Hall, 175 Freshmen have recently read a rearrangement of Acsop's fable, "The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse," for one minute and a half and chatted informally for another minute...
...talking of Mark Twain, she said, "I met him at a party when I was a young girl--we just sat in a corner and talked. Have you read his "Mysterious Stranger?". Most people know the Mark Twain of "Tom Sawyer" or "Huckleberry Finn," but in this book is another Mark Twain, cruel, hard, and the greatest pessimist in the world...
...read in TIME, Oct. 28, under "International" the evidence gathered from the Italian white paper, about the Ethiopian customs, betraying Ethiopian atrocities. . . . It was added, "In nearly all parts of Africa the lash remains the usual punishment for natives...
Sports were forbidden and the "blue" laws were strictly enforced. The day was devoted to church activities and sober conversation about the good fortune of the colonists. During the holiday dinner, 'was the custom in many households for the father to read sermons aloud...
According to his nurse, while he was delirious he often became obsessed with the idea that his room was full of chickens and rabbits, and he made frantic attempts to drive them out. The concussion also affected his eyes, she said, and he will not be able to read until the lenses in his glasses have been readjusted...