Word: readings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have heard this story five times in different parts of New England. Yesterday I read in the latest copy of The New Yorker-from the letter from Paris-the following: ". . . A gipsy woman got into an autobus and sat down next to a Parisienne who moved her handbag out of the gipsy's reach. The gipsy said, 'Why do you do that when you have only 18 francs in your bag?' The woman had exactly that sum. Then the gipsy told each of the other passengers how much he or she had, down to the last...
...popular explanation of Leopold's hasty night ride was that Wilhelmina had become perturbed when she read an article by the French political writer René Pinon in Paris' Revue des deux mondes which suggested that Germany, about to pounce on the Dutch, had offered Belgium a piece of The Netherlands in return for Belgian neutrality; that His Majesty rushed to Her Majesty to deny the story personally, and then the royal telegram was drawn up to serve as an excuse for the sudden visit...
Gypsy Smith was born in England, 79 years ago, in a tent under a hornbeam tree. Until he was 18, he never slept in a house. A peddler of clothespins which his father, a Christianized gypsy, carved of hornbeam wood, Rodney Smith taught himself to read from a Bible and a dictionary. Under the hornbeam tree he preached his first faltering homily. To the same tree he returned four years ago, a falterer no longer, to preach to 12,000 people. By that time, he estimated, 40,000,000 had heard him-as a Salvation Army recruit under William Booth...
Many a sophisticated Manhattan housewife last week, tardily opening her October bills, blinked as she scanned her laundry statement. Instead of the familiar Croydon Trousseau Laundry, the billhead read: Shields-Wood Service. Proprietors: Francis X. Shields, Sidney B. Wood...
...late as midnight, no answer to the Lampoon's invitation had been received from Browder. Read explained that a telegram had been addressed to the C. P. Head care of the Kremlin, and that the delay might have been caused by the difference in time between New York and Moscow...