Word: reade
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...read the Cabinet a practical political lecture on emptying their minds and exposing their plans to the Press, pointing out that the habit got New Dealers into quarrels with one another and exposed their schemes prematurely to sniping from the opposition. With this bit of good advice the President heartily concurred...
...editorial has taken either of the courses himself, he will probably realize that the two vocabularies are very different--more so than in any other major language, with the possible exception of Russian. That is why German 1b is given--so that the man who wants to read material in his subject which happens to be written in German will be able to do this with two years of German, without wasting time on vocabulary which will be of little practical use to him. On the other hand, a man can pass through a whole year of German 1a without...
...decrepit sheetlet that Elias has picked up, he has turned into a moneymaker. The Herald, when Elias found it, was on its last legs as a Laborite party organ because the millionaire publishers Beaverbrook & Rothermere knew better than the Herald's editors what the British workingman wanted to read. Elias fixed that, had its sales up to 1,000,000 in a fortnight. He repeated the feat last year with the Socialist weekly Clarion. In two months he drove its circulation from 40,000 to nearly 250,000. So long as they show a profit, he is willing...
...school who would, as he did some years ago, say what he thought. I asked him to dine, tried to get his attention." But all the other poet would talk about was politics ("He said apropos of nothing 'Arthur Balfour was a scoundrel' "). He urged Yeats to read Major Douglas (on Social Credit), went away shaking his head because Yeats replied that he was re-reading Shakespeare and Chaucer, found all he wanted of modern life in detectifiction and Wild West stories. Next day he sent his criticism of Yeats's verses: "Putrid...
...nine of those years they lived together, and Catherine did her wifely duty as her husband saw it: at night, in bed, she helped him play with dolls, in the daytime at soldiers. Because she had to do something with her spare time, and because she was ambitious, she read hard, got herself an education. Catherine's only use was as brood mare to the new dynasty, and since her husband would not or could not serve her, the breeders did not much care who did. When she foaled her first-born (afterwards the mad Tsar Paul...