Word: reader
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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People distrusted MacDonald more because of his War record than anything else. But now the staunchest Conservatives have words of praise for him. Premier MacDonald is a great reader and a good writer. He has, by the way, the greatest private Socialist library in existence. He is also a not mediocre Art critic, into the bargain (TiME, July 21, ART). Iconoclast,* who is now known to be Mary Agnes Hamilton, has written a good biography of the Premier. Perhaps it is a little flattering, but not much...
...House of Alard. It is a bitter struggle for Raphael, widow- er, father, country clerk, when he finds himself in the throes, of an utterly unreasonable love for an utterly unreasonable young lady, turned gypsy, from London. It is likewise a struggle for the reader...
...article, almost a column and a half long, appeared in the Times, puffing its subsidiary. Said the opening sentence: "The August issue of Current History offers objective evidence of the broad diversity and superior utility of the valuable information which it conveys." Perhaps so. But the 'discerning reader is more likely to find in this sentence objective evidence of the Times' belief in the broad diversity and superior utility of group control of publications. If the Times occasionally gave similar column-and-a-half treatment to issues of The World's Work, The Yale Review, The American...
...Manhattan, it is to the New York American (Hearst) and the Daily News (Chicago Tribune Co.) that sensation-mongers, scandal-gluttons and other addicts of "the pandering press" turn to gratify their low tastes. To The New York World and other papers, a higher class of reader turns for "legitimate" news, vigorous editorials, tasteful "quality" advertising. Many were the readers of the World on June 29 who, beholding the following advertisement in its columns, turned startled eyes to their paper's title-line to discover if their newsdealer had not made some mistake: ¶Just Published! "THE PRICE...
...similar offer was received by a Zoo-Direptor in Boston. Arthur Brisbane, Hearst editor and omnivorous reader, saw this and of course commented. It remained for Franklin P. Adams (F. P. A.), of The New York World, to remark: 'Here's one original thought,' writes Mr. Brisbane in The American. 'John Cromartie, citizen of New York, writes to the Franklin Park Zoo in Boston, saying he'd like to be exhibited in the monkey house with the other primates, to show how much man resembles the ape." It is, as Mr. Brisbane so well puts...