Word: reade
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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John Garner read the statement, chuckled, said "No comment." Newshawks began checking, soon learned that "Cactus Jack" quit high-stake poker about 1920, has since played seldom and then for "buttons."* All top-rank correspondents know John Garner's drinking habits. He likes bonded rye, will occasionally go for good corn, scorns soda, ice and fancy fixings, pours water-tumblers half-full, says "Let's strike a blow for liberty" and chases with a little "branch-water" out of the faucet. He has never been seen drunk or even lightly groggy. After 6 p. m. for some...
...Henry Ford sent a message, publicly endorsing Dr. Buchman and his work by name. Herbert Hoover furnished some words about the world's troubles, which headline writers construed as praise for MRA; thereupon Mr. Hoover let it be known that he neither endorsed MRA nor denied endorsing it. Read again was the message President Roosevelt sent a recent MRA meeting in Washington. Thirty-three U. S. Governors let their names be used as subscribing to a statement that "Moral Re-Armament is our most urgent need...
...misguided English Foreign Policy which tried to make an enemy of Italy over the Abyssinian business, instead of adopting Sir Samuel Hoare's sensible scheme for splitting Abyssinia between Italy, France and ourselves, has failed to destroy Italian friendliness. But then, naturally, the Italian people do not read English newspapers, whereby they are spared much...
...bottle. In the bottle was the Hopkins Manuscript. Since the damp climate of the British Isles rotted all books and papers, practically the only other records of the white man's glory known to the vigorous civilizations of the East were a rusty iron tablet (when deciphered, it read: Keep Off the Grass) and an oblong stone (it was believed to read: Peckham 3 miles...
Author Arlen, still a fashion plate at 43, is now in Greece with his wife, the Countess Atalanta Mercati, who is as beautiful as her name, and their two children. Nowadays his highest ambition is "to write a book which I can read after I'm fifty without nausea." The Flying Dutchman, pure Arlenquinade...