Word: reader
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...have been a cover-to-cover reader of TIME for over two years. From the very first I've felt that TIME and its aim-"to keep intelligent men and women well-informed"-must be the creation of a genius. If Briton Hadden was that genius, my sincere condolences upon his death...
Wells. Said Mr. Wells : "I can imagine nothing more amusing and exciting than to study your marvelous organization [but] our only paymaster ought to be the reader. . . . The writer . . . classes himself . . . with the teachers and the priests and the prophets. . . . Apart from that your project is most attractive...
...work will interest him more than the others. Now he is experiencing his first real thrill in the effort to procure everything published by this particular author. Here also begins the storing up of those little bibliographical details which lend zest to the hunt. The fancy of the proof-reader, the error of the typesetter, the imagination of the binder,--all these and many other factors tend to make identification of first issues so certain and so easy--after one knows the variations...
...that 'Five Men of Frankfort' is a poor book, but it is not, and perhaps does not strive to be a complete history of the great banking house which grew out of the little shop in the Frankfort Judengasse. For the average reader, neither a student of the period, nor one more than ordinarily interested in the history of the amazing growth to power of the House of Rothschild, for one who wishes to get some light on its development and influence, Mr. Ravage's book is well designed, and, so far as it goes, essentially correct...
...then, all in all, and viewed from the standpoint of what it is meant to be, and not what it might be, "Five Men of Frankfort" deals very acceptably with a story which can perhaps never fail to arouse the interest and to some extent the wonder of the reader...