Word: reade
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...student body, such as this letter, and there is literally too much said on your editorial page. Nothing can be said against the news columns of your paper, which are written up in the best sports style, and I often find myself so engrossed in the story that I read through to the very end in order to find out what sport you are talking about. I notice with approval that when you find that you have missed an event by a week or so, you do not try to cover yourself up by saying that the event took place...
...read with interest your article on "Patent No. 2,000,000." . . . I was most interested as I had just received a letter from the Department of Commerce regarding Patent No. 354934, and I believe that I have discovered a minor business racket...
...great Raphael's oval Madonna of the Chair, has hung for centuries on the wall of Florence's Pitti Gallery. The director got a curt notification to take it down and pack it for shipment to Paris. At the same time the director of the Uffizi, having read a similar command from Il Duce, was reluctantly packing Botticelli's masterpiece, The Birth of Venus, Michelangelo's Holy Family, Titian's Flora. At the Bargello it was Verrochio's David. At Milan's Brera it was Raphael's Nuptials of the Virgin...
Then, 33 years late, he resumed his interrupted art career. His specialty became landscape and particularly the roofs of Manhattan. At least once a year he and his pretty, young wife would move to a new apartment where he liked the view. He saw few friends, read the Commercial & Financial Chronicle in the evenings and painted steadily. The results last week amazed Manhattan critics, who kept asking why nobody had discovered Lee Lash the painter before...
...hearted, wishy-washy, just barely pornographic. As they were, I nearly died laughing. Ask any Harvard-man what he thinks of the last Lampoon, and if they are the same men I've asked, you will find them whole-heartedly in its praise. After all, they were eager to read it; the reading lightened their cares for a short time; the Lampoon had served its purpose...