Word: reade
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sundowner" who read with interest the article concerning that eminent former "sundowner," Frank J. Hogan, I would like to add an interesting item. Almost all of those who unsuccessfully take the semi-annual bar examinations are condoled with the information that "Frank Hogan (considered the leading member of the local bar) flunked the bar exams three or four times." I asked John Paul ("Daddy") Earnest, Chairman of the Board of Examiners, to verify that statement, but he was unable to do so. However, I think it can be considered the truth, since the fact seems to be well-known...
...Everett Shinn and all of his works six months ago- and had pepped up each week your Art column with his type (if such exists in quantity) I would have rated [10 points higher] on your Current Affairs test of the same March 11 issue because I would have read each Art column from C to C (civer to civer); without benefit of Shinn, however, I never read Art, because it doesn't help me much in my job of cotton-raising...
...male citizens over 21 and able to read and write will have the right to vote. Women's suffrage will be extended on the same terms if, in a plebiscite to be held within two years, 300,000 women vote...
...March sunlight gilded their breakfast tables, Washingtonians read in their morning papers that in about two weeks the Japanese cherry trees around the Tidal Basin would be in full bloom. The same day Kansans breakfasted by lamp light and read in their morning papers that one of the worst dust storms in the history of their State was sweeping darkly overhead. Damp sheets hung over the windows, but table cloths were grimy. Urchins wrote their names on the dusty china. Food had a gritty taste. Dirt drifted around doorways like snow. People who ventured outside coughed and choked...
Only those who buy or borrow bootleg books got a chance to read the late D. H. Lawrence's Lady Chatterley's Lover, the most outspoken novel yet written on sexual unhappiness, its cause and cure. Those who read it remember, besides its paeans to physical passion, punctuated by Anglo-Saxon four-letter words and North-country dialect, its Lawrentian plot: how Lady Constance Chatterley, full-blooded young wife to a paralytic peer, sought fulfillment elsewhere and found it with Mellors, her husband's gamekeeper. Author Lawrence, no champion of neat endings, left his lovers looking forward...