Word: reader
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This is, naturally, a pacifist point of view; but, strange to say, in the days before "Charlie" Bryan became the amazed?no, gentle reader, we did not say "amazing"? Vice Presidential nomine of his party, he set the seal of his approval as Governor upon the Defense Day plans, offering to call out the state militia and to invite all patriotic societies to participate...
...This the first history of the United States Army ever published," begins the blurb. Let a reader not mistake Major Ganoe's volume for a history of U. S. military feats-a story of battles and trials at arms. In a way it is that, but only incidentally. In the 600 pages of the volume (200 of which are devoted to appendices and index), the battle of Gettysburg is described in just one sentence: "The three days' fighting so well known in American history resulted, after Pickett's charge, in the defeat of the Southern army...
...book equal to if not greater than that devoted to battles is devoted to the description of drill regulations and the organization of the body military. These things are not of primary importance except to military men, yet there is plenty of interest in the book for the general reader. In military affairs we have too often been the plaything of chance. Hear a few stories of our past which we too little know...
...Came Back. Patrons of the high blood pressure drama will recall this melo-sample of a few years back. The hero slides down the widely advertised trough of iniquity and gets the breaks working just before he pitches over the edge. For the outcome, the reader is referred to the title. George O'Brien and Dorothy Mackaill are the slider and the brakes respectively. The action roams just about all over the world, gets into opium dens and that sort of thing, and manages to make itself thoroughly exciting...
...shall also be name less for protection's sake, have heralded Uncensored Recollections as one of the greatest contributions to Continental biography of the decade, if not of the Century. In point of fact, it is nothing but a book of gossip, biographically useless. It will make the reader wish that the author's memory had been a little more accurate and that someone had censored the product. It does, however, bring up a nice point of honor: is it compatible with the conduct of gentlemen to publish to the world the indiscretions of and essentially private details...