Word: reading
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Congress, comes when a bill is being amended. Then legislators are working spontaneously with their wits and tongues to shape and perfect legislation. Full-dress debate, such as last week's in the Senate, is almost as empty of reality as the cook books and tracts that filibusterers read into the Congressional Record. Even as a powerhouse of arguments, this Congressional debate was of little or no importance. The Washington public stayed away from a mere set of written speeches; waited for the sparring to come when such phrase-fisted boxers as Missouri's Clark and Montana...
...last month amid arc lights that made the Indian Legislative Assembly Hall at Simla, the summer capital, look like a film studio, six-foot Lord Linlithgow, Viceroy of India, read to a hushed gathering a long telegram from His Majesty the King. The telegram explained why Great Britain had thought it wise to enter a war and the monarch was confident of India's support. Then His Excellency the Viceroy put on his pince-nez, looked accusingly at his audience and proceeded to assure His Majesty, on behalf of India, that India saw eye to eye with everything Britain...
...August 2, 1914, the cruiser Emden lay in the tranquil, mountain-embraced harbor of Tsingtao, China, with its crew assembled on deck. Captain Karl von Müller, a man of Prussian gallantry and Goth insolence, read to the sailors a wireless message announcing war's declaration...
...think for another moment of the Clement's crew. With good weather and luck, all of them reached shore. All 47 were immediately asked a question everyone wanted answered. What ship attacked? One man, apparently a spokesman, replied with assurance: "The attacking ship came so close I could read the name Admiral von Scheer." Either his eyesight or his memory was bad: the name he had meant to speak was Admiral Scheer...
There was no time to man boats. As the ship listed and Miss Duncan was swept against a cabin, all she could think about was the stories she had read of the suction of sinking ships...