Word: reade
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...show "because of the danger of war." Last week Peggy Guggenheim cast in her lot with London by announcing that this autumn "Guggenheim Jeune" would be expanded into a Museum of Modern Art with a fulltime curator in the person of Britain's foremost art-explainer, scholarly Herbert Read...
Dorothy Thompson is the U. S. clubwoman's woman. She is read, believed and quoted by millions of women who used to get their political opinions from their husbands, who got them from Walter Lippmann. Besides her columns she has written six books, ranging from her famous 100%-wrong guess on Germany in 1932 (I Saw Hitler) to her most recent effort to educate the U. S. electorate (Dorothy Thompson's Political Guide). Her opinion is valued by Congressional committees. She has been given the degree of Doctor of Humane Letters by six universities, including Columbia...
...followed her previous ones. She helped to rebuild a house in Vermont and filled it with guests. She set up an establishment in Bronxville that soon became famous as a salon. She called herself Mrs. Sinclair Lewis. She had a baby. For two years she hardly read a book. She wrote some articles and short stories, but they were not enough to keep her busy. Following her inevitable pattern, she was restless and dissatisfied again. The columnist's job Saved her from boredom and turned her burgeoning energy into the channels from which she could derive the most personal...
Since 1929, whenever civic-proud residents of Minneapolis looked at their tallest building, they have read, in huge, indelible black letters encrusted on all four of its sides, the name of the utilities tycoon who built the building and later went to Leavenworth from which he was paroled two years ago. Last week the Minneapolis Journal gave them something to stare at besides that big FOSHAY. Using the invention of another local prodigy, Louis L. Rustad, the Journal strung a network of neon tubing around the top of the Foshay Tower, began displaying "sky flashes" of the latest news...
Another man of God, in like case, wrote: "When, three weeks ago, I was living through the first long Sunday . . . I read the letters of the New Testament which were written in prison. There is joy and power...