Word: reader
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...business department of TIME which I missed in the daily newspapers. Frequently, when I refer these items to Mr. Blair, I am impressed with the value of your publication, by reason of the fact that he, too, missed them in his daily reading, and he is a very careful reader...
That parasitic serpent on the tree of knowledge, the Professional Tutor, is brought under the glare of undergraduate analysis in the current Advocate. Surprisingly enough, the process leaves the reader with the distinct impression that the genus is not entirely poisonous; potential virtues he has, avows Mr. Herz, even though they are outweighed by his sins...
What is, to the world at large, the interest and importance of such discussions as this may be known only to those editors who have the trend of timely subjects under their scrutiny. To the average reader it must seem that the long-continued offering of praise and censure and criticism upon the altar of the post-war generation is drawing at last to a close. Companionate marriage may succeed student suicide as a material for headlines, but all such topics begin to have a hollow ring; and when, as in the present instance, they are ignored, and youth...
GRITNY PEOPLE-R. Emmet Kennedy-Dodd-Mead ($2.50). Author Kennedy brings the colored talent of Gretna, across the river from New Orleans, to Aunt Susan's cookshop where they tell their tales and croon their tunes. The reader may be gripped with pathos, shaken with laughter-if he escapes suffocation in the cloud of dialect which pervades the book from cover to cover. There is also a spirit of ineffable quaintness at times a bit trying. Gritny People is, perhaps, less fiction than a study of primitive Negro character and lore...
...contrast to the European press partisanship, the papers here on which the citizen is dependent for his knowledge of governmental affairs deem it best to respect the feelings of the men at Washington, and tell the reader what he likes to believe is true. Revelline in their nonpartisanship, and in the confidence of legislators, the papers refuse to stimulate by criticism. They ignored the maladministration of Harding's term. As a recent particular, see how they minimized Nicaraguan troubles where in a single battle, whether rightly or wrongly, the marines with one loss killed six hundred native rebels. The weekly...