Word: reading
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...When I've read up all the sages...
...mosquito was Fidel La Barba, one time flyweight (112 lb. or under) champion of the world. A student at Stanford, he wants to go into real estate business. Among books he has read and liked are the Outline of History by H. G. Wells, Round Up by Ring Lardner. Among maga-zines he likes and reads is Variety...
...Woodrow Wilson read a press despatch that his Secretary of the Treasury had flown in a plane over San Diego, Calif. The President was furious. He had warned his Cabinet officers specifically against flying during the War, when they were precious to him. And now the man who was not only his Number Two man in the Cabinet, but his son-in-law to boot, had flown...
...this, New York's East Side tenements would have to be first bombed, then swept into the sea. . . . Mr. Wells was unhappy when he finished The King Who Was a King. Reason : "Not one in a thousand who would see this gladly on a screen will ever read it as a book...
Last week he received a telegram. It read: ''Des Moines University students promise not to rotten-egg Dr. T. T. Shields and Miss Edith Rebman of the board of trustees when pair return to Des Moines next week...