Word: reader
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...your Aug. 24 issue, Forbes-Robertson's autobiography, Page 14, "is a snapshot album." Miss Harrington's Glorious Apollo, " a florid woman's Byron, contrived by a rather superior Elinor Glyn," and "only a patient reader will . . . win through, to the central piece of work that recommends" Miss Wilson's The Kenworthys. No other books are reviewed...
Author Barry Benefield Tortures the Inveterate Reader...
...odds, and lost, is too finely and poignantly told in the book to repeat here. Suffice it that Jim seems too good to be true and yet is true; and that there is a last chapter, where the Star's scrubwomen come in, which will torture the most inveterate reader of novels between a sob and a smile...
...Ward describes the theory, presents the evidence, tells the history of the idea. It takes him 336 pages to put it all down thoroughly, but the style is so crisp and lively, the chapters so economically arranged, the illustrations-verbal and photographic -so clear and well-timed, that Reader Doe will come to the end breathing easily. Particularly lucid is the exposition of chromosomes and the variations they produce; particularly commendable the author's ability to keep his reader im- pressed at all times with the enormous diversity of life and the in- cessant struggle for existence. Reader...
Until that moment, young Gunn was the protagonist. A clever writer, fashioning a story of that morning's play, would make the reader feel that Gunn was going to win. He would dwell on the amazing machine-like perfection of Gunn's every stroke. He would describe how since Jones was playing par golf, Gunn shot under par to win holes from him. He would hint that Gunn could not keep it up. The reader would gather the conviction that Gunn was most certainly going to keep it up. But this would be a literary trick...