Word: reader
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fails to achieve the desired effect. One can as easily read his essays without laughing as go swimming without getting wet; the ridiculous twists to his tales, the whimsical matter-of-factness with which he describes his characters and relates events seem to touch a hidden spring in the reader which necessarily provokes mirth...
...story of Aucassin and Nicolette was unknown to the general reader in England until Walter Pater first published his "Renaissance." Today it is known and ready by all and is considered the best love story in the world. Quarto. Cloth. Decorative cover. A. & C. Black, London. Published at $3.50. Special price...
...collection named "Master Eustace," the substance which James presents is of his customary order, rather ethereal, rather, even, anaemic, Each story affords an excellent cuttlebone for the sensibility of the reader, and rests with that service alone. Stimulating the appetite of the reader for solid substance, he can provide nothing so coarse as the satisfaction of a desire...
...reader of the current issue of the Advocate is struck, first of all, by the remarkable and wholly creditable variety of its contents. To call it a "Yale Game Number" is to tell but half the story. Football articles there are--and good ones--but the proximity of the biennial pilgrimage to New Haven does not prevent Mother Advocate from bestowing considerable attention on subjects of more permanent importance. The reader's second thought, if he be critically inclined, is a sense of artificiality, a palpable striving for effect, which is evident throughout the present number. And this...
...really big theme, but its deserved effect is lessened by the mechanics of its narration. In the first place, the style is not wholly suited to it and the insertion in the wrong places of such asides as "Pass the matches" and "please, the matches" irritates the reader beyond words. O. Henry might have told the story in such a manner and still have been effective; Mr. Rogers' ear is not yet quite sensitive enough to get the effect he so obviously tries...