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Word: reader (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...plot was laid in Sandusky, Ohio. Whether the Simmon's home was situated on Main Street or not was left to the reader's imagination. Probably not, because most of the characters were attractive. But the street certainly ran parallel to Main Street, and there was a distinctly small-town background, out of which the title of the play was taken...

Author: By F. I. C., | Title: CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 2/15/1924 | See Source »

...Devonshire about in a manner more piquant than kindly. Gilyan meant well by Warner, but the strings of their amours only became the more evolved, despite the timely arrival of Harold Lidstone, cousin from the city. Sunshine, ample-blossoms, cider, a deft and graceful style, carry the docile reader through unhurried pages of reflective charm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Her Crystal Ball* | 2/4/1924 | See Source »

...Newspapers," wrote Charles Lamb, "always excite curiosity. No one ever lays one down without a feeling of disappointment." Here is a book that will satisfy that curiosity and give the reader an explanation of his disappointment in laying down a modern newspaper...

Author: By C. P. M., | Title: JOURNALISM AS SEEN FROM THE INSIDE | 2/1/1924 | See Source »

...Page has a rather eloquent reply to this quest for a smooth path. He turns to Rx (pronounced Rex) for an explanation of the hitherto inexplicable in nature; "Rx, the most wonderful, abundant, and essential kind of matter known to man", and in a rambling treatise for the lay reader not only overthrows all existing theories of the constitution of matter and proves the Bible scientific, but explains Einstein...

Author: By J. H. H., | Title: OVERTHROWS SCIENCE IN NOVEL DOCTRINES | 2/1/1924 | See Source »

...CAULDRON?The Reader's Melting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Weekly | 1/28/1924 | See Source »

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