Word: reader
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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From the days of Poe, when the detective story was literature, it has de generated. Today, it is usually, writer and reader alike, a mere intel lectual concoction, a puzzle, dependent for interest entirely on its solution, but cast in literary form, with perhaps few thrills of horror thrown in for good measure. The two following examples belong to the latter development but, in their group, they are considerably above the average...
...morphine, locked (from the inside) in the wardrobe of a hotel room in London. There is a balcony before the room window, so that anyone on the same floor of the hotel and of another hotel adjoining might have committed the murder. The clues are spread out before the reader with commendable fairness, but in baffling number. Two plots are so skilfully woven together that one has to wait for the writer to unravel them. Not until two-thirds of the way through the book does the writer find it necessary to conceal from the reader the surmises...
...round form of k. Practically all eminent skolars in English and editors of our dictionaries ar agreed as to the present need of simpler spelling. Many of the recognized leaders in education declare it the most important problem before teachers. I will gladly send free to any reader of TIME a brief statement of Reasons and Rules which wil be convincing to the fair minded. MELVIL DEWEY...
...told how the great logger fought with Hels Helson, his foreman, on top of The Mountain That Stood On Its Head in the Dakota Country, until they trampled the mountain flat, leaving only the heaps of blood-darkened dust now called the Black Hills, none but a foreign reader will be reminded of Miinchausen, Swift, or Rabelais. That Paul Bunyan stood about 400 feet high in his orange and lavender checked wool socks; that he invented the logging industry and combed his beard with a young fir or redwood when thinking of other ways in which he might make history...
...complimentary letters have been largely from people of more or less analytical minds, ministers, teachers, and newspapermen. The other side has been little heard from. The Register is finding difficulty in getting at the real psychology of the newspaper reader. Most readers interviewed indorse the crime page, but when questioned as to what they know of news of the day, it has been found they know more about crime than other stories...