Word: reade
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This strategy involves questions which the ordinary citizen considers far removed from the religious level, matters such as proper procedure for doctors, what you may see in the movies or read in the newspapers, or the nation's foreign policy...
...England. The Duchess of Kent has the most beautiful nose. The Duchess of Windsor has the most beautiful chin. And I have the most beautiful eyes. Surely," she added, with an impish gleam in her eye, as her flustered partner groped for a suitable answer, "you believe what you read in the papers...
Retiring President Mildred McAfee Horton thought Dr. Clapp was "ideal." Wellesley's 1,600 girls would probably agree. They would find in their new president a lively first lady who scorns bridge and refuses to take up knitting. But she can read Scott by the hour ("no problems, no psychoses"), plays the violin, and can make students sit up and take notice when she lectures on American history...
...neurotic zest, James recalled "the most appalling yet most admirable nightmare of my life," in which he had first been driven to "unutterable fear" by a "presence" and had then turned about and chased it down a long hallway. Throughout his life James was fascinated by the supernatural. He read Poe's horror tales, thought several of Hawthorne's fantasies "little masterpieces," and relished the late 19th Century pseudo-scientific stories about mesmerism or "animal magnetism." In his European travels, he spent many weekends at castles where family ghosts were indispensable furnishings...
...made clear (she still lives in Montclair, runs her husband's business and was 1948's "Woman of the Year"). But the personalities of the twelve Gilbreth children are never created; they remain a vague, boisterous chorus. How little such shortcomings mattered to people who want to read about the Pierce-Arrow days, Crowell's cash registers were recording...