Word: reader
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Crothers, pastor of the First Parish Church since 1894, is known as a theologian and as an essayist. Among his numerous works are "Members of One Body". "The Gentle Reader", and "The Understanding Heart...
Undoubtedly, the Graphic did not hatch its idea from The New York Evening Post, for, since no Graphic reader would be likely to look at such a "highbrow" paper, the same might apply to its editors?and, besides, the Post did not offer prizes for last lines. However, the Encyclopedia Britannica, in its 1911 edition, remarked: "In recent years, competitions of the 'missing word' type have had a considerable vogue, the competitor, for instance, having to supply the last line of the limerick...
...cure is as bad as the disease not only because its machinery old and new is at fault; the entire principle of censorship is an out worn heritage of civilizations dead and gone. Its most persuasive ancient champion, Plato, fails to convince the reader of today that it is possible to legislate virtue into a populace. The medieval Inquisition tried in vain to keep religion in the hearts of men by the most cruel machinery of censorship the world has ever seen. Milton's "Areopagitica" gave the answer of a new civilization to this deadening philosophy...
...There is no Foxy Grandpa behind The GRAPHIC'S prizes. Every reader of this newspaper knows how many cash prizes there are in our contest. And, besides, The Graphic puzzles are the 'best in the country. They are prepared by an expert and not by a stunned...
From the columns and columns printed about the football situation at Cambridge, the newspaper reader is fairly safe in assuming that Harvard will either have a new head coach or not have one; that Mr. Fisher will either return or fail to; that Maj, Daly is not coming as head coach but will be merely the head coach of the backfield; that Harvard is (1) satisfied; (2) unsatisfied, or (3) dissatisfied with Mr. Fisher; that Messrs. Leary, Crowley and the immortal Mahan will or will not be among those present and accounted for, and that the sun will or will...