Word: reader
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...avert a happy ending. Chuckle production, still profuse, rests chiefly on: 1) The incongruous appearance of old family bywords ; 2) cretinous actions by the characters; 3) obtuse conversations as between one amiable dunderhead and another ; 4) childish horseplay with modern solemnities; 5) feints at coy indelicacy. If the reader at times identifies the author with his hero, that is because, in the funny business, the last, not the first, 100 years are the hardest. It is impossible to be a success at anything, even clowning, and not take one's work a trifle seriously...
THUS FAR-J. C. Snaifh-Appleton ($2.00). Rushing alongside the horny-hided thriller-reader, Writer Snaith delivers pointblank a tale about a scientist who grafted the fourth dimension upon the fetus of a high anthropoid. The offspring was nerveless, bloodless, sexless, deathless, supra-intelligent and psychic. Unforturfately, it was also sadistic and clawed out a number of people's carotid arteries, among them that of the scientist. Also unforunately, a very biological biologist and a very bemonocled amateur detective pile the book with slovenly heaps of "scientific" jargon, consisting chiefly of proper names that Writer Snaith looked...
...have been a reader of your paper since the early numbers and have been recommending it to my friends, but your issue of June 1 has a paragraph that you ought to be ashame...
...late Lord Curzon's book, British Government in India, was posthumously published last week. He was engaged in correcting proofs of the book at the time he was fatally stricken (TIME, Mar. 30). The book, which takes the reader behind the scenes in India, is sure to be of great value and absorbing interest, for few men have followed the course of events in India as did Lord Curzon, him self once Viceroy of that land...
...York, N. Y. June 5, 1925 Sirs: While I have never been a subscriber to your magazine, I have read it with interest from time to time. I know it has a number of great admirers in this vicinity. The late Dr. Burton, President of the University of reader." Michigan, in particular, was a "constant reader...