Word: reading
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Your magazine is just what I've been seeking. I read many publications that purport to serve a similar need, but in each case I have been dis- appointed. Rehashes and incoherent excerpts are not only bewildering but maddening. Your magazine covers the ground in a style that is both provocative and individual. I wish to goodness I had been a subscriber from the first issue...
...Aldrich family of Providence and constituted chiefly of the material on banking, finance and the tariff brought together by Senator Nelson Aldrich in his lifetime, adds to the school's possession in these fields. Housed as it is in a separate room, it provides an excellent reference reading library for students who wish to withdraw from the rush of their everyday obligations to read comfortably and leisurely in the history of those subjects which certainly have lost none of their importance since the days when they engaged the interest of Senator Aldrich...
Professor R. E. Rogers '09, of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, has consented to read selections from the speeches of Secretary Mellon and President Hoover which were made in relation to this film. Tickets for the performance may be secured from Professor William Emerson, at 491 Boylston Street, by application in person or by letter...
Judge- Stone, summing up the case, characterized the book as the most vicious piece of literature he ever read in his life and the vilest he ever saw in his 25 years on the bench...
...series of 138 woodcuts, of which every picture helps to tell the story, the allegory of an artist's life is unfolded. The pictures are obvious enough, and placed in such obvious sequence that even a novel-browser may read both tale and fable aright. The artist comes to a strange land, gets into difficulties from which he is rescued by a mysterious masked figure. End of Part I. The artist comes to a city, paints pictures, is taken up by a patron, lionized, supplied with a mistress. End of Part II. He is happy with her until...