Word: reader
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Tales of a Great Victorian, Conrad in a New Edition and Rolling Home fortify the reader's impression that the late captain of all seagoing novelists is thoroughly understood by his mate...
...check for ?1000 that was owed him and refusing a girl that was not; and the bit about Miss Wycks who lived, just for one minute, "Where the Pigeons Go To Die." But sometimes again Dikran just writes something to sell, thus and thus, and then he sells the reader. That is what it is. Poker...
...curious reader (I use the singular advisedly), are thoroughly familiar with the external aspects of your college. With the exception of the Geology Museum there is no building on your campus into which the inquisitive Freshman has not poked his eager nose by the first of October. You know every hole in the sidewalks of Spring Street. You call the open-handed shopkeepers by their first names. You say, "Hi, Toughey!" to every one you pass on the street. You know all the professors at least by name. You have definite places to eat your meals...
...function is not to write the University catalog, although you may begin to suspect so. The little matter of review, which I have already mentioned, is in itself sufficient to prevent my filling that office. As to what my function may be, I prefer to leave the reader in doubt. Mere impressions, such as I have recorded here, may possibly have some value. But the masterful words of the professor in Property come back to me, and I quote them in conclusion: "Gentlemen! Gentlemen! Mr. Doe is drooling. Kindly draw the sheet over...
...Many a reader of current newspapers has wondered at the sudden frenzy of publishers to jam "all of Shakespeare in one volume" at prices ranging from "only $2.98" to "only $5.49". After assuring you that this is the one book you have lain awake nights wishing for, the chatty publisher takes you by the lapel and babbles away just like a friendly real estate agent...