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Word: reader (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...diffusion, itself, of such a mass of detail is not, however, without its own attractiveness. It but leaves the reader to share the work of artistry and from his knowledge of the subject covered, to select his own entertainment. Alumni will find the descriptions of men they knew and mention of comments and characterizations they may themselves have made or heard. Undergraduates will find the roots of many traditions and the sense of the dignity and aristocratic nature of academic work, which is even yet a part of the New England atmosphere...

Author: By G. F. Wyman, | Title: EIGHT O'CLOCK CHAPEL. By Cornelius H. Patton and Walter T. Field Houghton Mifflin Co. Boston. $3.50. | 6/15/1927 | See Source »

...have at least merited such adjectives as original, novel, and daring. Inasmuch as Henry Thomas presents to a satiated public this typically twentieth century literary cocktail in the very center of the storm of applause still acclaiming the Erskine novels, he has committed nothing than une gaucherie. Before the reader has sipped at "Cleopatra's Diary" he has recalled the merits and defects of "Galahad" and adopted a standard of critical comparison which the latest exploit of ancient and medieval virtues and vices cannot begin to approach. For Cleopatra, Queen of Egypt, sorceress of the Nile, is as distinctive because...

Author: By R. A. Stout, | Title: Polished Wit--Men of Letter and Politics | 6/15/1927 | See Source »

What are "fancy spellings" in your opinion? Is plain, correct spelling to be considered "fancy"? Why did you sit Reader Gibbon down so hard [TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Character v. Show | 6/6/1927 | See Source »

TIME meant no harshness toward Reader Gibbon. TIME merely defended its policy of printing letters as received, misspellings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Character v. Show | 6/6/1927 | See Source »

...incantations of fishing, from spitting on angleworm segments to affixing trout cosmetics and bass liniments. It dwelt on piscatorial beatitudes in a manner that quickly revealed Mr. Hoover as twice the fisherman Calvin Coolidge is said to be, and in a style that revealed Mr. Hoover as a reader of Poet Edgar Guest and probably other standard authors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Philosophy | 6/6/1927 | See Source »

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