Word: reade
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Soon two British battleships, three cruisers and seven destroyers were looking for the corpse of Surgeon Lieut. Robinson. When it could not be found, Dictator Kemal offered to send a Turkish battleship to throw a wreath into the sea while a British chaplain read the funeral service, "thereafter the incident to be considered closed." This offer His Majesty's Government accepted, breathed not a word about demanding either an indemnity or an apology from Kemal's Turkey...
...Most students of a philosophic turn of mind, he figured, write poetry. Therefore he announced a college poetry contest. The response was overwhelming. For a chance at cash prizes of $50, $30 and $20, 2,394 college poets bared their souls in nearly 3.000 poems. Plucky Investigator Leach read every single one down to the last line. Last week in Manhattan he was ready to make his report...
...tumble-down little house overlooking a backyard dump in Pittsburgh, newshawks found a tattered sexagenarian living on relief funds, identified him as William Andrew Mellon, first cousin of one-time Secretary of the Treasury Andrew William Mellon. Said Cousin William: 'T need this place because I can read, study, think and dream. . . . Andy has been sending me money monthly...
Under Publisher Brown and Editor Pew, Editor & Publisher has been a consistent moneymaker. Its most creditable features are thoroughness and speed. Thousands of words of copy, received by wire in Manhattan on Thursday, are read by subscribers on Friday afternoon. But rarely if ever does Editor & Publisher tread upon a toe within the industry. Perennial targets on its editorial page are Radio, press agentry, censorship, Freedom of the Press, persons who think advertising rates should be lowered or telegraph rates upped. A newsboy at 7, Editor Pew lately plumped for the 14-year limit for newsboys, against the publishers...
Readers interested in the ailing old danio plunged hopefully into the story that followed. They read...