Word: reade
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...good friend, the French surrealist poet, André Bréton, gave it to one of Trotsky's secretaries to type. Léon Trotsky chanced to see a copy of the letter on the secretary's desk, and before he could stop himself, he had read enough to get very angry at Rivera's un-revolutionary and disloyal words. Trotsky made some remarks about Rivera. Rivera found the remarks "unacceptable." Trotsky dispatched a friend to Rivera with 200 pesos ($40) as rent, so as to be free of obligation. Without indicating whether he thought that...
...Wright had published nine scholarly books (What Nietzsche Taught, The Future of Painting, etc.), had worked himself into a nervous breakdown that turned his luck again. He spent two years in bed, unable to read, one more year reading and analyzing detective stories, the heaviest fare his doctor would allow him. When he was able to get around, he took to Editor Maxwell Perkins of Scribner's the outline of three Philo Vance detective stories. As S. S. Van Dine, Wright wrote serialized best-sellers for a decade, so obscured his earlier reputation that when his identity was revealed...
...volume monumental for scholarship, yet easy to read and superbly illustrated,* German-born, Nazi-banned Dr. Margarete Bieber (now of Columbia University) has told in full the story of the Greek and Roman theatre-its drama, stagecraft, architecture, acting. Besides treating of obscure and controversial points chiefly interesting to archeologists, her book resurrects many a curious and picturesque fact...
...squire in fact. New literary blood was brought into the magazine in the form of contributions by Auden, Spender, et al. By January 1938, when the price was doubled from 1 s. to 2 s., circulation had climbed to 6,000. Readers of the current (April) issue read a stiff-upper-lip editorial announcing that it would be the last. The London Mercury was broke. Reason: A catastrophic slump in subscribers and advertisers due to "political and economic tempests of the last year...
...least of her trials was her pious, domineering husband, Dr. John Burrus Fearn, head of the Men's Hospital at Soochow, later head of the Shanghai General Hospital. When she married him, three years after her arrival in China, she was compelled to read five chapters of the Bible each morning, ten on Sundays, while her hospital routine waited, slowed, stalled. She stood it until one morning the Bible-reading held up a Caesarean, whereupon she slammed the Bible on the floor, crying "I can't bear it! I wish I'd never seen the damned thing...