Word: reader
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Graphic's contest was too difficult for their average reader, and the harder they make them the better for the experts. A simple contest for simple people would have been much more successful...
...they watch magicians, longing for mystification, it will be merely a tedious expose of an art which is better left unexplained. But reading fiction is not like watching a magician; it is more engrossing when the difficulties of writing are apparent. To any writer, to many an intelligent fiction reader, Author Forster's penetrating analysis will be as engrossing as the fictions it surveys...
WILLIAM W. Roper needs no introduction to Harvard readers. As coach of the Princeton football team, he has written a book that will make interesting reading for a couple of hours. "Football: Today and Tomorrow" is primarily for the football student and yet it will interest the ordinary spectator who wonders how a football machine is built. Vividly and simply. Roper writes of the most important phases of football life, gives sounder advice to coaches of football teams, and intermingles his advice and diagnosis with many anecdotes which are bound to attract the average reader. The book is evidently written...
...taste, which even Mr. Cecil de Mille would find difficult to rival. This the rest from the editing of the over cantious publisher, but the subsequent omission of the chapters $6 and $2 complete is hardly an act which will recommend it self to the judicious and exacting reader. To be sure, these passages and the delightful interline included therein might not be missed by students unfamiliar with the original text, but without them and the sundry other amourous moments wherein the chastest of embraces have been substituted for move strictly anatomical descriptions, it is difficult to understand how Petronius...
...rich mine of culture has worked it for its most lavish production. She has exploited her vast knowledge of the English vocabulary to a staggering degree. In so doing the length of verse is often subjected to the cause of an extra-size word or two, thus throwing the reader completely out of step. Her lines are vigorous, robust, even Englishly athletic...