Word: reading
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Manhattan Building met last week the Executive Committee of Tammany Hall to discuss such routine things as a contribution to national Democratic deficit. Finally Secretary Eagan asked the chairman for permission to read a letter. He read: "Because of ill health and on advice of physicians I resign as leader of Tammany Hall. George W. [Washington] Olvany." Silence. Looks. Leader Olvany, present, said nothing.* Followed then days of consternation, for a New York mayoralty contest looms. Nearly every district leader hoped for the succession. Meanwhile to Surrogate James A. Foley everyone, including Alfred E. Smith and James J. Walter looked...
Every egg laid in Scotland after June 1, 1929, will be stamped with a national mark (see p. 21). Whether the mark shall read "Laid in Scotland" or "something more dignified" was weightily considered last week by His Majesty's Secretary of State for Scotland, fussy Sir John Gilmour...
Perfectly alert and mobile, the brain followed each move of the Mexican revolution (see MEXICO), as Mme. Foch read rapidly from latest editions of Le Temps. Ever and always the Generalissimo, her husband, who had long since lost all appetite, ordered his jaws to chew, his gullet to swallow, and so far as in him lay, his stomach to digest...
Gently Pope Pius inquired, "Have you read of it in the newspapers...
...chase to the catastrophic finish, Moby Dick provides palpitating cinema material, to say nothing of a complete scientific compendium of whaledom. But far more than these it offers so excellent a parable on the mystery of evil that every man can read into it the drama of his own experience. "Mr. D. H. Lawrence sees in the conflict a battle between the blood-consciousness of the white race and its own abstract intellect, which attempts to hunt and slay it: Mr. Percy Boynton sees in the whale all property and vested privilege, laming the spirit of man: Mr. Van Wyck...