Word: reade
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...TIME, April 8, I read to my surprise "Little Anthony Eden was a healthily snobbish Eton schoolboy in tails, starched collar and high hat every day of the week...
...President would so insist. In the face of Mr. Glass's demand for an unequivocal answer, the President said he would not insist. Mr. Glass emerged grinning owlishly. Had the President expressed any opinion about the banking bill? Newshawks demanded. "The President," said Senator Glass succinctly, "has not read it. Therefore I cannot discuss it with any one who has not read...
...sooner had the House resolved itself into the .committee of the whole to con-sider the Social Security Bill than Speaker Byrns descended from the rostrum and proceeded to read the House a lecture on time-wasting. He warned members that important bills were coming up, that they had no right to "adjourn as we did yesterday at 4:15 in the afternoon." With emphatic swings of his arm he declared...
Fifty years ago when David John Lewis was an undersized boy of 16 working in a Pennsylvania coal mine, he could, like many another, neither read nor write...
...lives in my own memory, seems to me to have been more like a catch-as-catch-can wrestling match than like ordinary instruction. What happened was that you were summoned to his chambers in Hollis and told to bring with you your manuscript. You were told how to read what you had written. Soon you began to feel that out of the darkness all around you long fingers were searching through the layers of fat and fluff to find your bones and muscles underneath. You could fight back but eventually he stripped you to your essential self. Then...