Word: reader
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...HUMPHREY A 13-year-old reader Sakonnet...
...interested reader of TIME there is little that escapes my attention and interest, and on p. 13, col. 3, of the current number (July 1) of TIME, you made comment of the mistake in the arrest of Djenany Bey, the dark-skinned Second Secretary of the Turkish Embassy in Washington, while under the photographic likeness . . . you refer to him as "Egypt's Djenany...
...highly paid solicitors and premiums, Publisher Taylor discovered, bring circulation only-not "reader acceptance." And reader acceptance is what money-spending advertisers want. So Farm Life's advertising did not keep pace with its circulation...
When crime looms in London there is but one thing to do?report to Scotland Yard. As any reader of the best detective fiction knows, the "C. I. D." (Criminal Investigation Department) will unravel the knottiest mystery in the shortest possible time. In fiction there is usually an amateur on hand to simplify the C. I. D.'s work. In actuality, for many a long year, the master mind of Scotland Yard, the prototype of Sherlock Holmes, a sleuth in no need of amateur assistance, has been Chief Constable Frederick Wensley, a real super-detective credited with solving more murders...
...there? Little Tommy Bear! Who'll geeva pull? Little Johnny Bull! What a naughty little pup To eat the paper profits up. Contributor Funk was obviously a man of substance, conscious of the stockmarket. His subsequent contributions would have revealed him, to any between-lines-reader, as: a fatalist; a hedonist conscious of women, tobacco, liquor; a bad golfer; a married man whose thoughts sometimes stray afield; a middle-aged married man whose thoughts always return homeward. Wilfred J. Funk dutifully summed himself up, in fact, in his opus for May 9 entitled "Symptoms," as follows: SYMPTOMS...