Word: digestion
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...peak of 79,531 a year ago. Less than a third of the buyers- about 23,000-are subscribers. The rest pay 50c per month at newsstands. "Urbane and washed," as Mr. Mencken describes them, they open at once to that "fearful and wonderful" digest, "Americana," where that portion of the population which has had the least educational advantage is made to seem ridiculous by juxtaposing its mental fumbles with the studied brilliance of sophisticates. The success of the magazine to date has been one of circulation. Now it is going to try to make money. It will seek...
...sealing wax, it has never--even when it boasted of an opora company--set itself up as the center of the theatrical world. It has, however, managed to remain respectable in the matter of dramatic entertainment and usually has afforded enough plays to satisfy any nicely adjusted histrionic digest on. Therefore the coming drought during which almost every legitimate theatre remains closed for a fortnight is not so much a Lenten penance as a sad testimonial to the decline of "the road...
...Wagnalls. (Publishers of the Dictionary, the Literary Digest and of the now defunct International Book Review...
...have been intending to cancel my subscription to TIME for the same reason the Rev. Father and Mr. Applegate give. "The Chaplin case" [TiME, Jan. 24] has decided it. The Literary Digest gives me all the news without filth thrown...
Sirs - I have not received TIME, Jan. 3, 1927. Can scarcely exist without it as it helps me to digest my food. I'm a professional woman and eat at restaurants, hotels...