Word: reade
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Believe me, nowadays we are (the few Hungarians who are lucky enough to know your beautiful language) hungry to read articles like the one mentioned above, and if we get a fresh copy of your magazine, the first thing is to turn the pages till we come to Foreign News...
...aroused, he plunged in, swam past the breakers, churned up & down parallel to the beach for 45 minutes, ably swimming side stroke, breast stroke, Australian crawl. Then he went to lunch (fruit only) at the moderately swank Dunes Club, then back to the beach to sun on a mattress, read (Grapes of Wrath) through dark glasses, listen to radio newscasts, until 5 o'clock. He swam for an hour again before returning to the Green Inn to dine on vegetables...
...effort to stop the Axis on the Pacific, having been forced to retreat 4,000 miles westward from the Vistula. Or it might blow Britain all the way out of the East if Japan and Russia patched things up and the Rome-Berlin-Tokyo Axis was relabeled to read Rome-Berlin-Moscow-Tokyo...
...lady departs and Joe produces a safety razor and shaves himself. After that he is ready to peruse his newspaper. Sometimes he goes for a stroll about the building . . . maybe even going so far as to visit his project. ... In the afternoon he may bring in a book and read awhile until he is ready to stretch out on the bench and take a nap. . . . 'My only comment,' he said, 'would be to hell with whoever woke...
...characters are unsurpassed in U. S. fiction: "It was an unfortunate moment to launch a realistic story of the war. At that time the bereaved were looking for comfort in such works as Mrs. Elizabeth Stuart Phelps's The Gates Ajar; and those who still wished to read about battles wanted them tidied up for the drawing room." But another factor is at work in re-establishing the value of such books as De Forest's. More important than the change in taste is the current re-examination of U. S. literature represented in works like Van Wyck...