Word: reads
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Loyalty boards who subscribe to such nonsense might well read up on he mechanics of the Communist trial to find out what are proper procedures for trying American citizens. It is true that a Loyalty Board is not a court of law. But since when is justice so closely confined...
...reading theater, actors do not memorize roles but read their parts directly from the script. "We keep the dramatic value of the play, even though we eliminate costly staging," Norris stated last night...
...salwars, a homespun shirt and a white Gandhi cap for his high bald crown. He is Panditji-literally, Mister Scholar -to his people. To most of them his Cambridge speech is unintelligible, nor is he himself quite at ease in the Hindu vernaculars. The mass of Indians cannot read his prolific English writings. Nonetheless, he has followed in Gandhi's footsteps as a popular national hero...
...Depending on whether they read their news in English or French, Montrealers last week got different slants on the same story. The French-language press reported that a man named Taillefer had pleaded guilty to five charges of keeping and selling narcotics. English papers were more specific: the man was the Rev. Arthur Taillefer, curate of the Roman Catholic Church of Ste.-Madeleine d'Outremont. In the prisoner's dock at the Palais de Justice, Father Taillefer had confessed that he was a key figure in the biggest narcotics ring ever uncovered in Montreal...
Leggy Cinemactress Ava Gardner (The Great Sinner), whose first husband was Mickey Rooney and second was Artie Shaw, now felt up to the esthetic side of marriage. "I've grown up," said she. "I used to think books were only good for doorstops. Then I read one and found it habit forming. Now I read all the time. Same with music. I still like pop tunes but I'm getting to be a longhair too. A few years ago I thought anybody who liked to listen to symphonies wore long underwear...