Word: reade
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...quickly," Shoemaker recalled to a group of newshawks. "What did I do? I took a pencil and on the back of an envelope I wrote, 'What do you want?' and handed it to a big guy leading the crowd. He read it, then turned around and said, 'My God, boys, he's deaf and dumb...
...last three months have practically ruined my health. I read the Tribune with my breakfast and I get so darn mad I can't digest my food and my day is spoiled. I read the Daily News before dinner and I get so darn mad I can't digest my food and my evening is spoiled. I spend my nights composing caustic letters to the editors which are never sent and I don't get my sleep. There must be a paper somewhere that has a good word to say for the President and the efforts...
...images of the Virgin, jigsaw puzzles. A former woman student, now a teacher, gave him (at his request) a manicure, and one patriotic young admirer took an oath not to shave until Puerto Rico was independent. As the professor grew weaker, he was moved to a cot in the reading room of the City Hall, facing the square. Too weak to speak, he read by the hour in Dante's Inferno. As the clock struck six one morning, the hour that ended his fast, Pereda sat up, crossed himself, bowed his head in silent prayer, then swallowed two teaspoonfuls...
Last week Vickers, Ltd., one of the greatest armament firms in the world, held its annual meeting in London. General the Hon. Sir Herbert Alexander Lawrence, chairman of the board, cleared his throat, sipped a glass of water, and read his report...
...Majesty's representative, the governor general of the Irish Free State, sat reading the papers in his suburban cottage outside Dublin. At the U. S. legation Minister William Wallace McDowell buckled on a very clean collar, put a silk hat on his head, took up his papers and went forth to present his credentials from President Roosevelt to George V. The two men never met. Governor General Buckley continued to read the papers while Minister McDowell rode behind a clattering cavalry escort to present himself to scrawny President Eamon de Valera of the Irish Free State...