Word: readings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...could you or any girl from around here hope to attract such a man?" asked the mothers of Roghudi gloomily. "If he ever chooses, it will be one from outside, one who knows the ways of the world and can read newspapers, as he does." Sadly aware of their own drawbacks, the rustic daughters of Roghudi could only sigh, and some among them hope that a day would come when handsome, dark-eyed Mayor Pietro Nucera might forget himself and take them by violence. In the harsh code of justice on the slopes of Aspromonte, the Harsh Mountains...
...alas for the women of Roghudi, an outsider able to read newspapers did at last find her way across the donkey trails and the single, swaying footbridge that were the only entrances to their village. She was round-faced, innocent-eyed Francesca Zavattieri, the new schoolteacher...
Smoke Rings. One look at her and the young mayor was smitten with a disease compounded of love and a paralyzing bashfulness. Before this gentle girl, who could both read and write, the dashing romantic was unable to speak a word. Desperate, he raced off to the town of Reggio Calabria to ask the advice of some more experienced guappi. "Appeal to her feminine curiosity," they suggested, and told him a few tricks of the trade. After that, Pietro, in the company of two friends, took up a stand opposite Francesca's door, puffing cigarettes in an urbane manner...
...tendency among the frightened and the angry is to find ingenious definitions of "civilized" to exclude as many blacks as possible. Last month Southern Rhodesia's whites erupted in angry debate after a government commission proposed that anybody, white or black, was entitled to vote if he could read and made $42 a month...
...part-time employment forecast for summer school students was read yesterday as "bright for men; cloudy for women...