Word: reading
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...read Mary Burchard Pryor's letter to you and before that I read the nun's canceling her subscription because of the doggerel you copied [TIME, Oct. 29; Nov. 5]. I liked Miss Pryor's letter; I did not like the nun's. The good Sister was too hasty. I'd say the poor little soul is overworked, and has to read while she's flying around doing a dozen other things, none of them easy. I know nuns and their trying career; had charge of nuns for years. You were perfectly...
...with sorrow for the passing of a cherished tradition, then, that Chicagoans read last July of the castle's sale to one Vincent Bendix, head of the Bendix Co., for $3,000,000. Mr. Bendix, they hoped, would neither dilapidate it nor try to carry the Palmer torch. Characteristic was the stipulation postponing his occupancy until the end of November, in order that, last Saturday, Granddaughter Bertha Palmer's presentation to society might be staged in its hallowed halls...
...More serious were the cases of Henry Manisof of Coney Island and Otto Leuderitz of Newark. Manisof, a Smith campaigner, died of dejection, weariness, heart disease. Leuderitz, a Smith devotee, read the news headlines, went for a gun, killed himself...
...Have you read John Brown's Body yet? Crictics, call it has greatest American poem--but its as fascinating as a novel and just as easy to read. Nearly a hundred thousand people have discovered that here at last is a poem more thrilling than fiction--a poem of glamorous history, inspiring biography, tender, gallant romance...
...CRIMSON'S correspondent, cloaking his argumentum ad hominem under the modest concealment of a requested anonymity, has shown, besides a certain orthographic freedom, a failure to read the editorial in question. The nucleus of the editorial reads...