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Word: reader (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...very lovely elder sister almost gives the story a serious background by trying to bolt from her husband with another man. But her motives are left shadowy, and the situation is only a foil for some rather splendid precentive heroics by Ian. More than a few times will the reader of Greenery Street be moved to gentle but physical mirth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Male Vegetable* | 9/7/1925 | See Source »

...Eastman exploits single incidents of the party discussion to blacken our party and to undermine all confidence by perverting the meaning of facts. I should think, however, that any serious and reflective reader need not even take the trouble to verify Eastman's references and 'documents' (which, moreover, would not be accessible to everybody), but would find it sufficiently simple to ask himself, if the derogatory characteristics given by Eastman to the leading personnel of our party had been true, how could this party have gone through the long years of underground struggle, have made the greatest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Trotzky vs. Eastman | 8/24/1925 | See Source »

...extra-legal effort to recover, from his rich, reprehensible, divorced wife, the custody of their unhappy child. Author Wilson* was awarded the 1923 Pulitzer Prize for the simplicity and directness of The Able McLaughlins. Simple in diction is The Kenworthys and fairly direct in presentation. But only a patient reader will penetrate the morasses of reiterative dialog, will take the scanted, arbitrary motives on faith, will 'ignore loose ends and faulty emphases and win through to the central piece of work that recommends the book. The characterization of gangling young Bronson Kenworthy, precocious, perverse, love-starved divorce-victim...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Woman's Byron | 8/24/1925 | See Source »

...have found out that I cannot continue to be a reader of your magazine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: California Was First | 8/24/1925 | See Source »

...Augusta F. Stetson, Christian Science Teacher and practitioner, was sent to Manhattan by Mrs. Eddy in 1886 to help organize the First Church of Christ, Scientist, in that city. She was for 17 years pastor and first reader of the church; differences with certain of the authorities caused her resignation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Hats On | 8/17/1925 | See Source »

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