Word: reader
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Books. Viscount Leverhulme was not much of a reader. He liked to look at books with pictures in them, the kind of pictures he saw in Punch or on theatrical handbills. He collected old mezzotints and caricatures, and would sit for hours with one of his scrapbooks in his lap, staring at the twisted faces and bright colors as if he were reading some racy tale. The people who bought his books were on the lookout for collections such as these; they, like Leverhulme, cared little for literature, and so it came about that first editions of Thackeray were knocked...
Belgium. Elizabeth Queen of the Belgians "is one of the most interesting of European Royalties ... a daughter of the Duke Karl Theodor of Bavaria, the famous philanthropist and eye doctor. . . . The Queen like all the Wittelsbachs is many-sided in her accomplishments: she is a clever violinist, a great reader, an admirable horsewoman, a good shot. . . . She is the only 'flying' Queen, and she thinks as little of flight as most people do of a ride in an omnibus...
Everyone now reads so much that writers perforce take it for granted that nobody will think while he is reading. And without thought, by writer and reader alike, allegorical writing is impossible. Allegory is the only class of writing in which the imitation of outworn literary styles can justify imposing itself upon the readers' attention. There ought to be, in the Advocate articles on Merlin and on the Dragon, a neatly concealed but none the less obvious reference to some Harvard problem or situation in which everyone hereabouts is interested. Mr. Demos does this in a more direct...
...sleep under the stars on a wall-less, roofless porch. She arose early, greeting milkmen and "newsies" on her morning walks. She would have no automobile until very lately, when she could not refuse her brother's gift. "Woman of character" her biographers call her, keen-minded, a voracious reader, benevolent, an alert citizen, "one to know whom is a benediction...
However much it may increase the value of the paper as a party organ this policy materially impairs it in exercise of a public purpose, the dissemination of fact news among the people. The unheralded entrance of partisanship into news columns, subjects the less discerning reader to a most powerful and intangible mode of convincing namely, tabloid indication and constant veiled repetition of a doctrine, an insinuation, or an attitude...