Word: reader
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...basis of an attack on the "attempt of extremists who style themselves Liberal with a capital L to exploit in their own interest the field of liberal thought." Doubtless this statement will be seized upon eagerly by a large section of the metropolitan press, but to the untutored reader it is meaningless without more specific illustrations...
...attended only elementary schools and am practically self-educated. Yet I became a teacher, and later a journalist. One of my early books was The Big Bow Mystery, written to prove that it is possible to concoct a detective story in which the criminal cannot be detected by the reader until the last chapter. But it is not typical of my work. I am known as the first interpreter of the London Ghetto. Children of the Ghetto, Jinny the Carrier and The Melting Pot are more representative of my numerous novels and plays. I have lectured in Great Britain, Ireland...
...story is culled from notes and letters written and received by Lady Rose; it takes the reader from 1834 to 1920 and presents a maze of interesting characters...
...thing from which a novelist makes principal or secondary characters, or episodes in a novel. I offer them to you for the novels you are writing in your own heads. I have treated you just as though you were that other self in me who is my best reader. I have given you the fare I like best." The reader expects "joltings"?especially after reading the publisher's blurb, stating that the author has attempted a "new form, not a short story, but raw material." The fact of the matter is that this is a book of short stories...
...York Daily News, a tabloid sheet which has picked up half a million circulation during the past four years among the gum-chewing population of Manhattan. Mr. Vanderbilt's journalistic efforts ever since his connection with Mr. Hearst have been aimed largely at this class of reader...