Word: reader
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Author. William McFee is a stocky man, blond, with vivid sea-blue eyes. Son of a British sea-captain, he was born, in 1881, in a three-masted square-rigger, Erin's Isle, homeward bound from India. Educated in English schools, a prodigious reader, he found the lure of the sea was in his blood. So at 24 he qualified as Engineer and ever since has cruised about. Most of his writing was done in the Chief Engineer's room of his various ships and was sandwiched in between long hours with engine pumps, port boilers, bilge rams...
That same pleasure which the reader of Emerson so often experiences, seemed apparent in the audience at the Union last night when it turned for a time from the baffling specific to the brilliantly stated generality. Mr. Bertrand Russell set forth more clearly than it is usually heard the logically impeccable case for intellectual toleration...
...print hand in hand with an illustration on every page. Both prose and pictures are good, for, though not always exceptionally funny, they-catch very well indeed the spirit which they are meant to give. And, what is more, they are of the sort that stick in the reader's memory long after he has put the book aside. The 'Friday Evening", for example, or the single meal at Memorial Hall, might easily become historic. Nor do I think that anyone at all acquainted will Cambridge could road the book without chuckling-perhaps somewhat thoughtfully. Whether the book itself will...
...camp fires and in the log cabins deep in the Maine Woods, the lumberjacks have for many decades composed and sung a rude poetry celebrating their hazardous life with its trials and its compensations. For the student of poetic orgins and of American life as well as the general reader, these poems are even more interesting than the famous old ballads handed down from our English ancestors. The typography of the book is another strikingly beautiful example of the versatility and skill of Mr. Bruce Rogers, who is the artistic director of the University Press...
...reader has gained the impression that "The Thief of Bagdad" is perfect, he is wrong. The reviewer can think of several faults that he might point out. But the virtues are so much greater than the vices, and the picture is withal so far above the ordinary, that its shortcomings may well be overlooked. If the motion picture camera has ever recorded a more enchanting romance, a more delightfully impossible fantasy, or a cleaner fairy story, it has not been the pleasure of the writer...