Word: reader
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Johnson, Sir Joshua Reynolds and a hundred others whose names have made history. Students of history will find the Diary a mine of information; the ordinary reader cannot fail to be engrossed by the absorbing account of life as it was during the late Georgian period...
...lamp. In 40 letters upon which the author has based his work, she gives some choice sidelights on the social life of the time; and the author in his turn has been able to embellish them with many an observation drawn from his immense knowledge of the period. The reader learns that George I was depressed at becoming King of England, that Lady Suffolk upbraided her royal lover for neglect, that life with the German Georges was not quite as dull from the inside as it appears from the outside...
...World, is obviously a man to take exception to such talk. When the editors of Collier's showed him What Difference Does It Make?, Editor Swope shouted for a stenographer and dictated It Makes a Lot of Difference. "Perhaps if my friend Bruce Barton were a more consistent reader of newspapers, he would not have committed himself to so many fallacies as he does in this article. Because one item in his paper was unimportant, he argues that all items are unimportant . . . Not so long ago some shots were fired at royalty in an insignificant village near the Serbian...
...adding that the art of spending was as difficult as the art of saving. They tried to lose by backing a musical comedy, an open-air theatre, a golf club. Always, miserably, they profited. Mr. Oppenheim-King Spider, spinner of a thousand diabolical detective tales -here chuckles with the reader in an elaborated humorous anecdote, borrrowed from George Barr McCutcheon...
...arisen in regard to the merits of this much-delayed production. Chicago delayed it for nearly a year by liking it so much. Some of Manhattan liked it. Some of Manhattan said it was terrible. Accordingly, the only thing to do is to offer a description and let the reader decide...