Word: reade
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bill Senator Long had explained to the Committee as involving financial arrangements for youngsters who crossed parish lines to attend school. Next day someone troubled to read the bill, discovered that it gave Long power to hire & fire all the State's 15,000 schoolteachers. Said the unabashed Kingfish: "Aw, that ain't nothing. That ain't no new power. But the bill provoked a New England-born, hitherto mouse-quiet Representative named Lester to supply the only fireworks of the session. While Huey Long, wearing a pink shirt and a broad grin, lolled on the Speaker...
...amusement, Shirley wades in the ocean or plays with her two older brothers. Too young (5) to go to school, she studies dancing, takes lessons at her studio from the teacher appointed by the Los Angeles Board of Education to instruct child cinema actors. She has learned to read short words. Her friends are the same she had a year ago, the offspring of her parents' neighbors. Careful of their daughter's dignity, the Temples insist that at all benefit shows she must have "top billing." This does not indicate that Shirley Temple has acquired stage conceit...
...speech, but its contents soon leaked out. Dr. Maniu had been about to reveal that as Premier he consented to Carol's return, and to the ending of the regency for Boy King Mihai (TIME, June 16, 1930), solely on the strength of promises made by Mistress Lupescu. Read his suppressed speech in part: "She declared 'My role has been that of Carol's solace in exile. I nursed him when he was ill and inspired him with courage. Now I will vanish forever from his life.' Such was the promise of this woman to myself...
...near-delirium when about to take Friar Laurence's potion. Newspaper reviewers sent up a praiseful paean to the adjectival accompaniment of: "Lovely! Exquisite! Extraordinary! Marvelous! Thrilling! Exciting! Radiant! True magnificence! Superlative!" Burns Mantle of the Daily News: "The potion scene, I venture, has never been as tellingly read as Miss Cornell gave it last night, simply, without affected hysteria, or hair-tearing.'' Brooks Atkinson of the Times: "This is an occasion. All a reviewer can say is 'Bravo!' " High praise, too, was due Miss Cornell's excellent supporting company. Particularly good was Edith...
Last fortnight Chicago newspaper editors received a pressagent's handout marked "personal & confidential." It read: "Attached is a brief announcement of what we think will be one of the most spectacular appearances ever made by General Charles Gates Dawes. We have been personally informed by the General . . . that in his talk to be given before the Chicago Association of Commerce . . . he will make the very startling pronouncement, based on facts, figures and charts, that the Depression will definitely...