Word: reading
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Read Transcends, Thunders...
...This is a matter which transcends civil liberties," Edward C. K. Read '40, Lampy president thundered last night. "Our forefathers came to America in search of religious freedom. The traditions of a great and liberal institution are being flagrantly violated by this autocratic dictation of our Thanksgiving rights...
Coach Dick Harlow gave all of the men who played a part in halting the Cadel assault Saturday (with the exception of George Downing and Hank Vander Eb) a well earned rest yesterday afternoon. No read injuries were reported after the team's first major win, although Club Peabody got a hard crack on his side and Joe Gardella needs a good rest from gridiron warfare...
Died. Opie Read, 86, homespinning Tennessee wit, last of the Mark Twain school, "greatest literary shortstop of his time"; of old age; in Chicago, Ill. Huge, gangling Opie Read wrote 55 books, edited the once famed humorous paper, The Arkansas Traveler. Like Oklahoma Wit Will Rogers, he belittled his own peculiarities by exaggerating those of others. Example: When a relative entered politics, said towering Opie Read: "He was so big that they didn't put him on a stump. They dug a hole for him to stand...
...last week, at the Episcopal Church of the Holy Comforter in the North Shore Chicago suburb of Kenilworth, school children gathered about the tomb of Eugene Field on the day before the 44th anniversary of his death. A Boy Scout and a Girl Scout laid wreaths on the tomb. Read and sung were Wynken, Blynken and Nod, Little Boy Blue, The Drum...