Word: reade
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...reads the Boston papers at all, it is well to read more than one of them. Because somewhere between or among the reports of the day's news as set forth in their respective columns, the actual facts of an event are apt to creep in. Differences of editorial policy are common and acknowledged, yet it is not often that one is treated to such marvelously varied front-page "interpretations" of the same news story...
...respectfully refrained from sighs and sobs at the motherly Paulino Lord as "Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch." And W. C. Fields provided his usual drunken merriment for the rest of us. In short, it is a well-presented transcription of that touching novel which our sisters must have read, the climax coming when Fields takes Zasu Pitts' acceptance of his marriage proposal with a peremptory "Good", and then proceeds to the home-cooking without further interruption...
Next morning at breakfast, when Mr. Moffett read Mr. Ickes' words, his food lost its taste. Having got his home modernization campaign well under way, he was about to launch his bigger drive to encourage private capital to build new houses. Only two days before he had told the Press that private capital was beginning to come forward in a big way, that already he had applications for insurance of $102,000,000 of mortgages, most of them for low-cost housing projects...
...influential names without much spirit behind them, and continual buying of tickets for one's own and one's friends' so-called 'pet charities.'. . . It is a fine thing to be known as a public spirited citizen and it is pleasant to read of one's activities in the paper. ... It is also much easier for some people to lend their names and subscribe a few dollars for tickets than to have to contribute time or thought. However, this is not the kind of contribution the social worker is primarily looking...
First letter came to a Sorosis member last July. It said that her husband was "idiotic," that he talked "drivel." that he had "bulgy eyes." It also said that her singing, of which the Sorosis member was very proud, was nothing but "screeching." What else the members read as they passed the letter around, none of them cared to repeat. Some members studied the handwriting, glanced suspiciously at other members. Accusations were made, bitterly denied. Two more letters came to members, both in the same handwriting. Worst of it was that some things in them were Sorosis secrets. Old friends...