Word: reader
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...insulting bit of bombast, this. No preparatory school youth can fail to sense from afar the intellectual superiority that is Harvard's. Pity it is that be must put his ear to the ground in doubtful expectation of ever hearing a human sound to urge him hither! A Crimson Reader (Female...
...TIME, April 12, under PROHIBITION, you speak disparagingly of breweries like Pabst and Anheuser-Busch, which leads the reader to believe that they were unscrupulous in their dealings through the saloons and other agencies. Knowing the Pabst family very well, I take exception to this as they are far from anything such as you lead your readers to believe. They are very well-bred, of good culture, fine breeding, and the influence that they exerted through saloons was absolutely negligible. It might have been the saloon keeper himself but not the brewers who supplied the beverages...
...your most enthusiastic subscribers, a cover-to-cover reader. The only time I become incensed is when I read a letter of criticism, and just because one single article you publish does not coincide with some readers' bigoted ideas and intolerant mind, they immediately say they never want to see TIME again...
...palace is yellow; the guards wear scarlet; Santa Barbarian males are tall, red-golden of hue and often go nearly naked. There are some 400 pages of highly involved events, followed by much sacking and a fierce conflagration, and the hero sails away having accomplished nothing more than the reader's unmitigated excitement. Author Masefield, famed and beloved as the poet of Dauber, Reynard the Fox, etc., does not, one hopes, take his novel writing as anything but an exuberant indulgence with, one also hopes, some lucrative return. There is nothing in this or in his first prose extravaganza, Sard...
...next year. The book contains in addition to hymns and Scripture selections, brief notes on authors and translators and on composers and sources. "Guttenberg to Platini" is an attempt by Mr. Winship, Librarian of the Harry Elkins Widener collection to present in a hundred pages all that the average reader needs to know about the early history of printing. He gives the accepted views, or in some matters of controversy the interpretation which he believes will come to be accepted, based on the bibliographical investigations of recent years, but without intruding on the reader any of the apparatus of scholarship...