Word: reader
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...current number, obviously with the undergraduate reader in mind, the editors have inserted three articles on the spring major sports. Mr. Buttrick writes a discriminating little piece on the prospects of the baseball team. Mr. Weeks regales us with genially grotesque tales of rowing at Harvard, past and present. O. L. F. submits a comparatively commonplace review of the track season. The articles, to be sure, are not extraordinary; there is little in them that you can get your teeth into; little that would be likely to start a discussion at a club table. Nevertheless the touch of journalism...
...from the lure of piracy through the good offices of Sentimental Jack, Captain of the Pirates. A young Frenchman falls among thieves. Another Frenchman, a Yank, a Portuguese and an African Black are introduced with good differentiation. Soon terror is spread in the heart of the hero and the reader is prepared for a critical scene full of danger. We are disappointed at this point to find the hero relieves himself from the embarrassment of a piston in the hands of a pirate being thrust in his ribs by "absently, and almost reminiscently, removing the piston from his hand...
...League Hopes", or "U. S. Won't Accept League, Harvey Informs Britain", and other like statements were spread across the front of yesterday's journals. They were typical phrases--the scream of the eagle could be heard in each of them. But as a matter of fact, once the reader passed on to the speech itself, he discovered not only that it was most tactful and friendly, but that it brought out nothing very new or unusual after all. All that Mr. Harvey said was decided definitely by the whole country in the national elections six months ago. Mr. Harvey...
...characterizations of cities is as good as that of people. Miss hurst make the reader see the huge undeveloped sprawliness of St. Louis as its grew back from its waterfront to there stolid respectability of kingshighway, the mediocrity of Page avenue, where Lilly move when the war and her father's money came, the verging of the flat city with the clayey surrounding. country. Similarly. The cinema screen of the book's pages, are thrown flashes of all the aired sections of New York Washington Square, Grimace Park. Grand Central Station while it still held the informality of partial construction...
...sincere the mother has not done greater thing than if she had herself achieved success and one is strongly tempted believe that Lilly Penny is great. The selfishness of a small nature would not have permitted her to sacrifice and battle for the possible success of her daughert; the reader cannot help but her happy with her over the triumph of the long year of struggle...