Word: reading
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...assurance of the old refrain, "All's quiet along the Potomac", ring throughout the bustling cities and peaceful hamlets of the land. For an open insurrection mars the tranquillity of the nation's capital in a manner not connected with the usual Congressional disturbances. Probably most people who read the Vice President's demands of last month that his sister be given the social privileges which go to his wife thought the matter would be allowed to end then and there...
Next noon the Prime Minister consented to another trial, and started to read a short greeting, timed to end just as Big Ben commenced to strike. All went well until Mr. Baldwin lost his place in reading, paused awkwardly, and upon resuming did not get to the end of his remarks before Big Ben's 132-tons began to reverberate...
...from ridiculing Marion, Editor Anderson's friends have succumbed to his civic zeal. They have read, for example, his editorials exhorting Marion to support its Kiwanis band. Marion was flattered when Manhattan's great Otto Hermann Kahn, no Kiwanian, sent a check...
Lady's Endurance. Elinor Smith, 17, entered a Bellanca monoplane at Roosevelt Field, L. I., took off, arranged the controls as best she could (her stabilizer went out of order) and settled down to read Tom Sawyer while soaring and soaring 600 ft. above the airport. She stayed there all afternoon, all night, all the next morning, part of the next afternoon. When she alighted she had established a new solo endurance flight record for women: 26 hrs., 21 min. 32 sec.-4½ hrs. more than the previous record (Louise McPhetridge Thaden of California). Miss Smith told about...
What the Jury Was Told. It was related, by consent of both parties, that Mrs. Dennett had mailed the pamphlet. The question was on its obscenity. The prosecutor "explained" the case 'to the jury. He read excerpts from Havelock Ellis and Henry Louis Mencken recommending the pamphlet, but later Judge Barrows instructed the jury: "I warn you against giving these the credence of testimony." Then Prosecutor Wilkinson, a fine, bluff man, read the pamphlet aloud while the courtroom, crowded with spectators, listened breathlessly...