Word: reader
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...mind, the dear old lady is evidently anxious to air her literary attainments, and to convey to such of your readers as may be interested in her communication the impression that her literary knowledge is widespread and that she is a very earnest reader of a great many interesting papers, but just why a lady of this sort should include Punch in her literary pursuits is beyond my comprehension, as her letter conveys very clearly that she is a person absolutely devoid of a sense of humor. I only hope that your correspondent is not endeavoring to enter the arena...
...William Roedel, elevator man at the Capitol Theatre, is five feet, six inches tall, and weighs 256 pounds. He is something of a landmark in the theatrical district. His passengers sometimes have to bend themselves into the shape of a crescent-" More than one newspaper reader stopped reading when he got that far and examined the headband of his newspaper to see if he had not picked up the informal New York World by mistake. But no, it was indeed the New York Times. Strange! Something certainly had come over that fatherly, dignified compendium, something that began perhaps, when...
...order of his day is the discovery of the droll, pathetic fact that life is life not a great scientific revelation but an amusing gesture. So Coles Philips would be right to suggest this as a Christmas gift, and the author of the Copeland reader is right in including an essay from it among the lore of his Christmas gift. "Oddly Enough" may well be the first of a series not alone reminiscent of Hazlitt and Sterne and Addison and all the others necessary to make this review "literary" but even suggestive of the avowed success as a colloquial essayist...
...blood and thunder stand out like welcome terra firma to a man in an open boat. For in the shifting sea of truth and actuality where floats the usual novel of today, the convincing tale of the impossible is a delectable and long sought isle where the casual reader may forget for a time that life is after all a rather nasty combination of prohibitions and inhibitions...
...condition--it is difficult to see how such a series of questions as those asked by the Church Advertising Association can be of much practical aid. The first "Do you believe in God"--is typical of the manner in which the questions are pre-pounded. Whether or not the reader does believe in God is a matter after all which chiefly concerns himself and one which he probably would feel rather reticent to broadcast through the column of the public press. The fact that all answers are to be unsigned makes little difference in the essential bad taste...