Word: reade
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...peace at any price, such levies would take away incentive for U. S. businessmen to help win a war. One of the 50 signers (Iowa's Guy Mark Gillette) said he expected nobody to take a confiscatory proposal seriously. And of the 50, only ten professed to have read the bill in full before they signed...
...Queen Elena and accredited diplomats looking on from balcony boxes, His tiny Majesty ascended three steps to the dais and sat on his throne. The 682 new Councilors then took their oaths collectively, after which His Majesty, producing typewritten sheets of paper from the pocket of his military tunic, read a restrained, conciliatory speech probably written for him by Il Duce. If there were fiery words to be spoken, Dictator Mussolini was reserving them for his own speech later in the week (see below...
...Mussolini, went to Paris supposedly charged with a secret mission. Before long everyone knew the secret. He called on a Daladier lieutenant, Public Works Minister Anatole de Monzie, and suggested that he tell his boss the time was ripe for Paris to woo Rome. Next day King Vittorio Emmanuele read his mild-as-milk speech before the Chamber of Fasces and Corporations. Day after that France's Ambassador in Rome, Andre François-Poncet, called on Crown Prince Humbert at the Quirinal and chatted 20 minutes...
...university, scholarship is not to be considered as a purely personal attainment, but as a benefit to society. It may be embedded in the printed word, and read; or in lectures and personal conferences, and heard. Ordinarily scholarship will assume both forms, and they are of equal dignity...
...would seem, by a desire to twist it into such an attack. The "artistry" has been successful, but the "art" has gone "too far for its own good." The "body" of the play is "Too beautiful" but the "book" is poor. By means of such contradictions, after one has read the entire review and learned that in nearly all respects the show is a good one, one is led to believe that whatever faults it does have must be laid at the door of the director...