Word: reader
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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From now on, the story runs riot. The War ends, Peter returns home, his father relents, he marries Georgina amid a swirl of roses and Rolls-Royces. But something that (to the reader's slightly puzzled intelligence) seems like an attack of amnesia, causes her to drive off in her new Rolls on their wedding night?while her unsuspecting husband sits by the moonlit lake and meditates, and never misses her till morning...
...five million members of the new Ku Klux Klan that they read this book." A tale of the original Klan in the days following the Civil War, when it was ordered dissolved, it breathes all the mysterious and sinister significance of the "Invisible Empire," and swirls the reader along with it under its exciting black hoods and white sheets. It stops by the wayside to terrorize one dark-skinned Julius Caesar, self-styled "Apostle ob Sanotification," known to his rivals as "dat slue-footed hypercrite." But most of the time, horses gallop, blood flows, hero rescues, villain pursues, disguises disguise?...
...next step was to bring before a Justice of the Peace one Mrs. Alice H. J. Morris, the "healer," and one Mrs. Beulah Webster, the "reader." They were held for the Grand Jury in $2,000 bail each as material witnesses. Bond for both women was furnished by John Lampkin, son of the deceased, who said he would have called a physician had he realized the seriousness of his mother's plight...
...homespun neighbors and say thus he spoke and thus we answered." But in spite of all this, or very likely because of it, he has transcribed an altogether delightful account of this picturesque ramble. He insists, through blithe pages sprinkled with woodcuts and quiet humor, on sharing with his reader everything from the smell of quaint, stagecoachy old inns to a "stomach-ache acquired delightfully on Devon strawberries...
...previous article I claimed--I hope with the reader's consent--that civilization and the peace of the world lay in the hands of the great English-speaking Democracies. They have the power to secure the peace of the world. They undoubtedly have the desire to secure it. Have they the will and the intelligence to secure it? That remains to be seen. Given the will and the intelligence the problem becomes one of straight-forward organization...