Word: reader
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Hearst papers are accordingly attacking the Supreme Court. The impression which the "Taft story " is intended to have on the reader is that Mr. Taft, by reason of the $10,000 interest in U. S. Steel bonds, is wedded to reactionary capitalism, and will therefore be inclined to decide in favor of the " interests." It is only in an obscure part of the two-page spread that the Hearst reporter speaks of " Mr. Taft's spotless reputation...
...Gives the reader what he wants and the reader's general level of culture...
With the plot clear in the reader's mind, it is a simple and gratifying task to ascend to the level of personal performance. In the order of their appearance, J. McK., Kimball, as the hotel clerk, was perfectly terrible, but you couldn't possibly get sore with him about it. D. A. Williams, as Byron Victory Dawes, the head of the nouveau riche family and head of the suspender-trust, carried on in a fine fervor of unsubstantial middle-aged choler throughout. Mrs. Dawes, played by B. S. Cogan, carried on in a fine fervor of substantial middle-aged...
...used effectively. Black-gloved hands, bloody keys, cellar vaults, and shuffling Chinamen are some of the devices. Around these as elements the story is well built, moving rapidly, surely, and with the many intensely gripping situations coming so rapidly on the heels of one another that the reader is sure, if it is possible, to read the book at one sitting...
...safe to say that not one reader in many will guess either of the two important solutions, either that of the purpose of the new pin, or the identity of the murder...