Word: reade
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Read Franck's "Vagabond in Sovietland" if you would see Russia and Russian conditions with a photographic and unprejudiced eye. The book will not excite you because the author does not try to pack his book with sensational facts, but the book will hold you interested from the very first page to the last line...
...three young married women in Louisville formed an informal literary club, began three novels which they read to each other at meetings. The young women were Alice Hegan Rice, "George Madden Martin" (Mrs. Attwood R. Martin), and Annie Fellows Johnston. Their respective novels were Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch, Emmy Lou and The Little Colonel. Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch was released as cinema last autumn (TIME, Oct. 29). Emmy Lou will probably appear in cinema next year...
Died. Charles Denison Holmes, 64, Wartime inventor of high-powered motors for submarine chasers, mobile artillery and tanks; after long illness (arthritis); in Mystic, Conn. For his services he received last month from President Roosevelt a letter of thanks which, because he was nearly blind, had to be read...
Although the islanders read English, Dr. Shapiro found the spoken tongue a mixture of degenerate English, Tahitian, and Pitcairn-coined words. He heard children say, "see ahse scauws zsegoin out da big ship" ("see the boats going out to the big ship"); and, "pfwat youall comee do diffy daffy?" ("why are you coming to do this and that?"). A few words, such as "tai-tai" (tasteless), are retained from the Tahitian although long since obsolete on Tahiti itself...
...instructor in the English department at New York University. Five years ago he resigned to devote himself to his magnum opus, went to Europe again on a Guggenheim Fellowship. An omnivorous reader, he says of his hero "Within a period of ten years he read at least 20,000 volumes." After futile searches for "a place to write," Thomas Wolfe is at present living in Brooklyn. Says Eugene, in autobiographical disgust: " 'To write'-to be that most foolish, vain, and impotent of all impostors, a man who sought the whole world over 'looking for a place...