Word: reade
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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About snowshoeing one publicity brochure says, "Inns and lodges often keep snowshoes on hand to lend the non-skier or the person who wishes to go afield and read the tracks written in the snow by wild creatures...
Eberhart will give the Foundation lecture at 5 p.m. Wednesday, February 16, and will read from his own works, Matthiessen said...
...living room is no longer a place to talk, read or just sit in. Last week in Manhattan, Bloomingdale's unveiled this model room, that features six theaterlike chairs, each with its end table for drinks, food and ashtrays. When the TV program is over, the chairs can be pushed back against the wall and disguised as living-room sofas. If TV palls, a curtain behind the set conceals a screen for home movies. In case home movies should pall, a small puppet theater-under the television set-can be pulled out and put to work...
...this period, two decisive events occurred in Dr. Doyle's life. The first followed his break with the Catholic Church, which had left him shaken and worried. One day, when he was wondering whether or not he should read Leigh Hunt on the comic dramatists of the Restoration (the Restoration was sometimes bawdy), he went to a séance. Unasked, the medium "received" and passed on to Doyle a "spirit-message": "Tell him not to read Leigh Hunt's book." Doyle was thunderstruck...
...supposed to speak with a U.S. accent (TIME, Nov. 29). Last week anti-Nazi Germans thought Die Neue Zeitung was speaking in the same guttural nationalist accents that General Lucius D. Clay has been inveighing against recently. Said the U.S.-licensed Frankfurter Rundschau: "Certain [Germans] smile when they read Die Neue Zeitung, as they can find there everything they think and do not dare to say . . . Whether they read the column called 'Observer' or the letterbox 'The Free Word' they will always find a sarcastic criticism of the American occupation or the Anglo-American occupation policy...