Word: reade
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...telephoned Mr. Bennett's old friend J. H. Thomas [Secretary for Dominions], who is holidaying blithely and typically at Brighton. 'Is this more humbug?' I ashed, in effect. ... 'I haven't read about it and I couldn't say anything in any case' replied Thomas...
...women. Each of the five swimming styles-free style, back stroke, breast stroke, medley and relay-has its own group of records. Because there are altogether 700 swimming records, hardly a swimming meet is held which does not break one. Accordingly, swimming enthusiasts were less than amazed when they read last week that 27 records had been broken by U. S. swimmers in a three-day meet in the Miami Biltmore Hotel's luxurious pool at Coral Gables. More remarkable than the number of records was one of the swimmers who had made them, a 17-year-old Miami...
...Smith on the 32nd floor of the Empire State Building. As chairman of the advisory committee of the Legion of Decency which is making cinema companies toe the mark (TIME, June 11, et seq.), Mr. Smith called for a copy of the law Mr. Burke considered so exemplary. It read: "A person who willfully and lewdly exposes his person, or the private parts thereof, in any public place or in any other place where others are present, or procures another so to expose himself is guilty of a misdemeanor...
...scarf and a fur-lined overcoat which, for no apparent reason, he kept putting on & taking off. Once he had located the spectacles perched on the top of his head, he gladly gave his autograph. He used Russian letters but he set them down vertically, like Chinese. Deciphered, they read: '"Igor Stravinsky...
Packard's president is Alvan Macauley, a courteous cultured gentleman of 62 who heads the Industry's trade association. He likes to whittle period furniture and part models in his basement workshop, likes skeet shooting, likes to read in his bath. He is also a smart salesman who learned his trade under the late great John Patterson of National Cash Register. Months before the Show he began to hint broadly at a new low-priced edition of Packard's swank eights, super-eights and twin-sixes-but he kept his public guessing. Packard had dipped into...