Word: reading
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...thoughts that are uppermost in the minds of the public are not whether this country shall sell arms to Mexico or enter the World Court. Instead, filled with the spirit of human kinship, they prefer to read the accounts of astute newspaper men who have bribed the White House cook to discover if the President prefers two or three minute eggs. It is their desire to know if the Hoovers intend to keep dogs or cats, not whether there are going to be any further developments in the disarmament situation. The great question is, will President Hoover look well...
There it was. The elixir, the aquavitae, the Mennen's Food; and upon it he would thrive. Never was there such an opportunity as the city presented for dances and cultivating the society of nice, and what Peter found intelligent girls. From then on he rose late, read all the newspapers and current magazines to be in the swim of conversation, and trained himself for the campaign. Here was the thing, that was lasting; if you made scores of friends, they would be with you all your life and you would have obtained something durable from college...
...Charles Aubrey Eaton, onetime Baptist pastor of John D. Rockefeller's Euclid Avenue Church, Cleveland, now a New Jersey Representative; the other by Democratic Leader Finis James Garrett. The Marine Band played sacred music. The Imperial Male Quartet sang hymns. Chaplain Montgomery prayed at length. House Clerk Page read the roster of the dead: Vaile of Colorado, Madden of Illinois, Sweet of New York, Butler of Pennsylvania, Rathbone of Illinois, Frothingham of Massachusetts, Rubey of Missouri, Oldfield of Arkansas, Faust of Missouri, King of Illinois, Gooding (Senator) of Idaho...
...Rancher del Toro held a conference with the best known divorce lawyers in the U. S. Stuffing the results into a formidable briefcase, he returned to Sonora, where with practically no trouble the Sonora Congress was persuaded to change the divorce laws of the State to read in this sense: A) Any ground for divorce recognized by any State in the U. S. is cause for divorce in Sonora. B) Three new grounds were added: 1) Mutual consent (Senor del Toro avoids this ground because U. S. courts might consider that it smacks of collusion). 2) Irreconcilable incompatibility. 3) Absence...
Poems were read by Poets Cale Young Rice (Stygian Freight), Clinton Scollard (Epic of Golf, Songs of Summer), Willard Austin Wattles (The Funston Double Track), Jessie Belle Rittenhouse (wife of Clinton Scollard [The Lifted Cup]). None of the reading poets were Rollins alumni...