Word: reade
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Having denied to his household the weekly pleasure of reading TIME, do you suppose that, ostrichlike, Reader Longwell will conclude that there are no such things as "strippers" and that what he read in TIME was all a bad dream...
...your issue of Jan. 14, under Foreign News, I read about the "stingy Swiss." (Yes, I am Swiss myself.) I do not object to your mentioning the fact that the "stingy Swiss" did not give the new President an inauguration. But I suspect you of not being properly informed concerning the Presidency in Switzerland...
Orthopedist Philip Duncan Wilson of Manhattan, president of the Academy, read the message, called off the names of other famed cripples-,Æsop. Richard III, Alexander Pope, Lord Byron, Sir Walter Scott-and pointed to one-legged Dramatist Laurence Stallings who was at the speakers' table of the banquet. From their successes Dr. Wilson drew a moral: "The orthopedic surgeons have the duty not only of relieving the patient of physical deformity, but of watching over his mental training during the long periods of hospitalization. The cripple must be made to understand that while his disability can be greatly...
...attacked. Rather, some inquiry should be made into the reasons for the production and the desire on the part of people to foster them. A person who has indecent thoughts will not be made into a better person by being prohibited from seeing things he wants to see and reading books he wants to read...
...editorial of last Friday concerning the crack-down on Sean O'Casey's play, written in understandable indignation at Boston's occasional stupidity in the matter of censorship, runs a little wild in matters of fact. I take it, from your reference to the critics, that you haven't read the play; in any case, I beg to differ with your statement that it has been termed "great" by the "most experienced dramatic critics in the United States." Some of them said that, some said quite the contrary, most were agreed that it was considerably inferior to O'Casey...