Word: reade
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...damage to date $5,000,000,000. Next day in the deeper drought country, the President rode past fields where cattle were munching the last dry straws of a crop that would never be harvested, drove over roads silted with the drifting topsoil of neighboring farms, passed signs which read, "You gave us beer. Now give us water." And, on -the speakers' stand at Devils Lake, leaning forward with his hands braced on the table holding microphones, he said in slow and sombre syllables: "I cannot honestly say that my heart is happy today, because I have seen with...
...rack was Franklin D. Roosevelt's Looking Forward, George W. Wickersham's Restating the Law and similar works. Passing up such dullish reading, reporters fastened their eyes on other social documents: The Working Woman in the Soviet Union, Why a Workers' Daily Press?, and outpourings like What Every Worker Should Know About NRA by Earl Browder, Secretary of the Communist Party. Opening the last they read: "Push aside the capitalists, open the warehouses, distribute the goods to all who need them. . . . Under Roosevelt and the NRA, the millions of workers are getting less food, less clothing, less...
After this oath had been read out a lay delegate from Stuttgart defied the Reichsbischof to his face...
...thereabouts in the Mencken-Nathan Smart Set. He doesn't want those sophisticated tales cropping up now. If they were reprinted, his name would carry them into thousands of American homes, where it is a parental maxim that a Terhune book is fit for the children to read. Then the Smart Set vein would crop out?and that would be the last of the Terhune books in that household. He prefers to remain an Apostle of the Obvious and to know the joy of a wide and appreciative audience. And then too, Mr. Terhune enjoys his great prosperity...
...laboratory observation and advertise: ''Smoke a Camel and notice how soon you feel your natural energy snap back'' (TIME, July 2). Last March, if advertising scouts had been on the job at the New York Academy of Medicine, or last week if they had read the Journal of the American Medical Association, they could have evolved a new cigaret-selling slogan: ''Smoke a cigaret and-keep your fingers cool. . . . Cool hands mean a warm heart...