Word: reade
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This was the opinion of Hamilton Fish Jr., '10, senior member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, expressed in a paper read yesterday to the Guardian Foreign Policy Conference in Winthrop House...
...Guardian Conference on American Foreign Policy on Saturday, at 1.30 o'clock in the senior common room at John Winthrop House will be open to all interested undergraduates, it was learned last night. At this session reports of the findings of the various conference groups will be read...
Young Henri drew pictures almost as soon as he could read, but at the age of 14 he broke a leg. The fracture was never properly set and a year later his other leg was broken too. Toulouse-Lautrec became a dwarf, shortsighted, blubber-lipped, with a normal trunk and tiny, shriveled limbs. Only 4 ft. 6 in. high, he could not lift an ordinary suitcase off the ground, had special sausage-shaped luggage designed for him. Fortunately, although his aristocratic family could not stand the sight of him, they kept him well supplied with cash...
Over the $25,000 gateway to Northwestern University's downtown Chicago Campus at Lake Shore Drive and Superior St. is a wrought iron sign. Last June workmen chiseled out of it the word "campus," substituted the word "gates." Then it read Alexander McKinlock Memorial Gates. Few people noticed the change, however, and not until last week did Northwesterners learn that their university's famed McKinlock Campus had been renamed the Chicago Campus...
WOOLLCOTT'S SECOND READER-Alexan-der Woollcott - Viking ($3). A 1,056-page prose anthology designed for hostesses whose guests ask: ''Have you anything to read?" This answer includes the work of 21 authors: two novels (Somerset Maugham's Cakes and Ale, Anne Parrish's All Kneeling): short stories by Hemingway, Dorothy Parker, Stephen Crane, Albert Halper; Max Beerbohm's famed Christmas Garland, Governor Wilbur Cross's 1936 Thanksgiving Proclamation, characteristic arch Woollcott comments...