Word: reade
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sirs: I have just read in TIME. Sept. 16, your story, "Suicide of a Consul." While I know that you will be branded as unpatriotic, revealers of "unpublishable" State matters, and twisters of truth, I want to congratulate you on an excellent example of fearless reporting...
...probably know, New York apartment houses are designed by architects who never read magazines and thus aren't interested in installing mail boxes of proper size; so magazines are dumped into a common basket or spread upon a lobby table...
...unaware that his Muse was often mute to his friends. Even as a little lad, Plato was his teacher; and philosophy his friend. He recalls his preference for the tales of the ancient sages; and the disappointment of his nurse who loved to read him fairy tales. There was a story of a wise man who lived in a tub and told an emporor to stand out of his light; there was a tale of a man who fell in a well while looking at the stars; and once upon a time there was a philosopher who plucked the feathers...
...subject. What Mr. Apted wanted stressed above all, however, was the beautiful $60 "no-parking" sign, one that would warm the cockles of any sign-connoisseur's heart, that hangs above the entrance of this triangle. It seemed very strange to him that such a very beautiful sign was read so little
...bless her soul, she felt sory for the Vagabond: the Vagabond living alone in his Tower. Did he have a good bed? A lamp to read by? Was he warm at nights? "Stone walls! You'll catch your death of cold!" She would have him comfortable; yes, and rich. Rugs for his chamber; wood for his fire; drapes for his windows; even a new cloak to wear. But the Vagabond is not sure. Leave his Tower? New Furniture? Strange clothes...