Word: reade
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Last week more than 1,000 Kansas Citizens gratified a long-cherished ambition to see the inside of the Long house. Up for auction was everything Lumberman Long possessed except the sets of Dickens, Eliot and Bulwer-Lytton which lined the walls of the little oak room where he read the Bible every morning and to which was brought his 10 o'clock glass of milk. While Auctioneer William Henry Jones grew hoarse trying to get better prices and Housekeeper Catherine Viles wept salty tears of sadness, bidders and gapers were able to glean from the house...
...with infinite justice and consideration. . . . The job of reporter has heartwarming compensations. Sometimes it pays a living wage. Sometimes it is 'a stepping stone toward better things.' Again it is a satisfying career in itself." Many a youngster wondering whether or not to "take up journalism" will read Stanley Walker's book and decide against it. For the ambitious cub who gets on a paper and stays there. Author Walker pictures a city-room postgraduate course: "It is like attending some fabulous university where the humanities are studied to the accompaniment of ribald laughter, the incessant splutter...
...important than business itself. By last week, however, the state of sentiment had so improved that businessmen were once more concerned with the state of trade. They had pondered the President's reassuring fireside talk; they knew that Big Business was again a welcome White House caller; they read a lot about the Roosevelt "truce" with industry and banking. And if there was still any doubt about the Administration's mellowing attitude, it should have been dismissed by the haste with which the President and his lieutenants shot down the little inflation balloon which hovered over Washington...
...When he read this editorial in University of Southern California's Daily Trojan last week, Southern California's famed Football Coach Howard Jones became indignant. At Kansas City, en route to Pittsburgh, he gave his squad a talk: "If there is any truth in it, it will show up Saturday. ... If we lose, I'll be ashamed of all of you." When the Southern California squad arrived at Pittsburgh for the biggest intersectional game of the week, a sports-page headline said: FILM CUTIES' TOY TROJANS ARRIVE...
...butantes of 1934-35, read carefully your 'Don't's,' memorize them, keep them always in mind...