Word: reade
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President said he had only one grudge against me. That was that when he was young his mother read The Jungle aloud to him at the breakfast table. I asked him 'And it spoiled your lamb chops?' and he said...
...Rudolf Hess. Because his German parents had him in Alexandria, he is called "The Egyptian." Many expected Congress Chairman Hess to be named Vice Realmleader of all Germany, for no man is closer to psychic Adolf Hitler. The session opened with a proclamation from the Realmleader. He did not read it. left that to a henchman, sat with arms folded, once scratched vigorously behind...
...your issue of Aug. 27?which, like most of its predecessors, I have read from cover to cover?you print an interesting discussion of Major Angas' book, The Coming American Boom; and while giving to one of its publishers, Mr. M. Lincoln Schuster, due credit for his skill and initiative, you speak of Mr. Schuster as "as shrewd an opportunist as there is in the publishing world." In every fine sense this seems true; but if you meant by "opportunist" a man who seizes every chance to aggrandize himself, regardless of principles, I trust you will let me contradict...
...girls must never be repressed. Their minds must not be filled with other people's ideas. Neither has ever been to school. They are self-educated and they know everything. I don't know how they learned to read. When they were babies instead of reading nursery rhymes I read the advance sheets of the Supreme Court to them. They liked blood and thunder so I read them the records of criminal trials. Since they were youngsters they have carried guns and are expert marksmen. Once, when they threw the Christmas tree through the front window when...
...Fiume, Italy, Vacationist Zorca Prince opened a letter from her mother, laughed at what she read, plunged into the sea. Her mother had dreamed that if Zorca went swimming a shark would kill her. Far offshore fishermen heard a scream, found a little patch of blood-stained water but no trace of Vacationist Zorca Prince...