Word: reader
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...long as you continue to please the average reader and your subscription lists hold up you may feel that you have one of the best Weeklies. You may consider me a Perpetual rather than an Original subscriber so long as you continue to play the game along the lines you have started. May I be permitted to say that it is an unusual person or publication who is willing to show the rest of us the slaps received from some and who is always willing to admit the mistake when one occurs. THOS. PHILLIPS...
...after the story is under way, no fairminded reader will deny that Mr. Lardner is doing his flat and level best not to get funny. Chapter Six begins: "It was at a petting party in the Whits House that I first met Jane Austen." He took her to see Gov. Al ("Peaches") Smith, who complimented her: "I thought The Green Hat was a scream...
Trivia are all these; of such trivia was last week's news compiled. But newspaper publishers tremble to think now soon their vaunted circulations would fade away if there were no trivia to intrigue the eyes of gossip-hungry readers. And last week's trivia were the more remarkable in that the sole value lay in echoes. There were echoes of old scandal, old romance, of famed names. Or, perhaps, they were more like bones than echoes, musty bones dug up by the professional gravediggers of the press for the wayfaring reader, who might cry "Alas, poor Yorick...
Revolt in the Desert. Colonel Lawrence tells what he did simply, occasionally with power, always with insight, often in words assembled like so many pearls; but not, on the whole, in a manner to sustain interest. Apparently the abridgment was intended to give the reader all the dynamiting and slaughter at the expense of paring down the Arabian milieu. This was a doubtful course?like abridging the Iliad into a penny dreadful about a wooden horse. Fortunately, Mr. Lawrence has done his own abridging and retained more than a modicum in the original nobler and broader strain. The book...
...independence is marred by the inability of Author Jordan to raise a real issue between the behavior of eccentric people and that of normal ones. While the normal ones are not brilliantly depicted, the eccentrics are so clumsily drawn that Dorinda, had she been a reader of the book instead of a character in it, would have been sure that they were not real. Yet Elizabeth Jordan is far from inept. Occasionally there are breezy paragraphs, her minor figures live, Bumper Product