Word: reader
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...born in Barry, Illinois; but literary Chicago claims him as her own. His education, which was never formal after early high school days, is broad, and in some respects, deep. A voracious reader, he has taught himself what most academicians do not know how to teach-the ability to think constructively. His training as a writer began with reporting days in Davenport, Iowa. Later, in Chicago, he became associate, then editor of the Literary Page of the Evening Post, a position now ably filled by the wise (as well as clever) Llewellyn Jones, Since then he has been converted...
...Meldon appear in it? though one of the principal characters, an Irish solicitor named Royce, bears a pleasant family resemblance to him in speech and ways. But, nevertheless, this slight and smiling tale of the adventures of Basil Price, private secretary to Lord Edmund Troyte, will serve the average reader as an acceptably mild antidote for mental fatigue. The hero first tries to get the fishing rights of an Irish salmon-stream for his chief; then foils a deep, dark plot of some rascally picture-dealers to buy an unknown Gainsborough? subject: Great Grandmother of the title?for a song...
With these drawbacks firmly in the reader's mind, the book will probably prove decidedly interesting to a follower of professional baseball. Who, for example, knows that Hans Wagner made the longest throw on record ? That Bugs Raymond once took the Keely cure? That McGraw raised Fred Snodgrass' salary $1,000 after the fielder muffed the fly which cost the Giants a World's Series...
...practical points of view, to really complete the volume. From the practical viewpoint, Mr. Shay's anthology is adequately handled. There are the expected notices of addresses for applications for permission to produce, and the bibliographies of books about, and plays of the "Little Theatre". For the reader, on the other hand, who would take up the book as a matter of enjoyable reading only, there are two important elements lacking. To begin with Mr. Shay's "Foreword" is inconsequential, where it could have been a brief survey of the "Little Theatre" movement in America, with special mention...
...Chrisian Science Monitor is in favor of Prohibition, and for that reason it hates to print anything that would lead a reader to suppose that legislative rulings pleasing to the " drys " are not being received with acclaim the world over...