Word: reade
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Amid vast relief, Herr Hitler made short work of pretending to read the scrolls. A Saar spokesman keynoted that the years since the Saar was placed under League rule have been a "pilgrimage of pain." Then the Realmleader launched into his speech...
...painted," said Mr. Higgins last week. "In the old Sazerac Bar on Royal Street I have seen the same men come in every day between 4 p. m. and dinner time, for years. They ordered absinthe frappe, a long cold drink you can sip while you sit and read your afternoon paper or talk with friends. There were scores of men who always took that one drink a day before dinner, and who I never saw take two drinks of absinthe the same...
...today," rumbled Novelist Theodore Dreiser in Manhattan. "I find life still interesting. When I get to the point where I don't find it interesting I'll get out of it." He read Novelist Mary Roberts Rinehart's remarks on Russia (see above), snorted: "She learned that in four days. I suppose she inspected all of the three and a half million people in Moscow and learned all about the rest of the country in four days...
...brisk, dapper London stockbroker, whose record as a market forecaster has been well publicized, displaced President Roosevelt as the most-discussed man in the Street. One day when stock-market trading dwindled to the lowest level in twelve years, brokers said it was because everyone had stopped to read Major Angas' prediction. Few days later when trading swelled suddenly to more than 1,000,000 shares and prices soared, they called it the "Angas rally." When the rally faltered next day one broker remarked: "What this market needs is another market letter writer from the Scottish Isles...
...Littell left Harvard to enlist in the American Ambulance Corps, served as secretary to Herbert Hoover in the American Relief Administration after the War. He has been on the staff of The New Republic, was dramatic critic on the New York Evening Post, the old World. His first book, Read America First, was published in 1926. Candles in the Storm is his second...