Word: reader
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Subscriber Anders a worthy reward for his originality (if the idea is original) but far be it from my means to render such reward. A C. to C. Reader...
...reader of TIME, and a resident of Jersey City for 40 years, I resent your description of our city as set forth in your article on page 16, issue of May 27. Jersey City is not, as you say, ". . .a sooty relic teeming with foreign blood." Like any large city, it has some foreigners among its residents, but they are in the minority. And certainly they are not looked upon as a liability, which your reference to "foreign blood" would imply...
...Because he used yellow paper for some of his editions of the New York World, and because his paper, avoiding contemporary stodginess, sought for 'human interest.'" (TIME, May 27.) I think you are mistaken in this! I have been a constant reader of the New York World for some 30 years and have no recollection of its editions ever having been printed on yellow paper. The origin of the opprobious "yellow journalism" came about through a "comic" drawn by R. F. Outcault, called "The Yellow Kid." This appeared first in the World; scored such a hit that Hearst...
Louis B. PARSONS New York City. Reader Parsons is correct. The Outcault strip was called "Hogan's Alley." It was continued in the World, after Outcault went to Hearst, by George B. Tuks. Then there were two "Yellow Kids." two yellow journals. - ED. B rownsville-Mexico City
...also conduct the column known as 'Your Broadway and Mine.' " Discouraged, they turned to the Times, wherein appeared an advertisement announcing that starting Monday, June 10, Walter Winchell will conduct a column for a rival gum-chewers' sheetlet-the New York Daily Mirror. Many a Winchell reader does not believe all that he reads. Sometimes the Winchell prophecies are right; sometimes they are wrong. But Winchell worshippers have enlarged their vocabularies, learned many a word they never had heard before. Some Winchell Words are: "dotter"-daughter "moom pitcher"-moving picture "Hahhlim"-Harlem "gel"-girl "sealed"-married "Joosh...