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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This week John Murray Anderson has devised a cabaret worthy of this whole column. When we describe a big padded cell with plucked geese hanging from the ceiling, we convey almost nothing to the reader. Perhaps it would be better to mention the ballet dancer whose knees kept letting her down onto the stage, or the singer who turned a back flip on the final note of the famous aria from Aida, and started clogging directly afterward. But all in all it is hard to express the true spirit of matters bughouse, for Mr. Anderson has done it in such...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 2/19/1926 | See Source »

...reader of your wonderfully liberal weekly newsmagazine TIME, I wish to call your attention that it is very much regretted that you have retracted such a true statement as to the claims of "Pope Pius XI," the assumed Vicar of Christ, on p. 2, Jan. 25 issue. Therefore, I sincerely hope that you will find a little space in your magazine, and print these lines for the good of all of us, and especially for the benefit of Subscribers William Boyd, B. V. Hubbard and the rest in their line...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Feb. 8, 1926 | 2/8/1926 | See Source »

...published in England in 1782, is a book known to serious students of the period of American history just prior to and during the Revolution. Buried for nearly a century and a half in the cabinets of the Crèvecoeur family, unpublished manuscripts were discovered. Even for casual readers the book has interest and the sort of charm inherent in any narrative that sincerely, accurately and with reasonable adequacy portrays the life of a period, however restricted as to time, regardless of the limitation of its area of action. Moreover, Crèvecoeur had a point of view...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Non-Fiction | 2/1/1926 | See Source »

...opening shot in the form of a "Prologue" proves a nasty sock at the reader with even the faintest metrical sensibilities. This tasty bit of verse contains no less than five various meters comprising trimeter, tetrameter and rentameter with iambs, and dactyls thrown in for good measure, and while thrown in for good measure, and while we cannot but approve the senti ment which suggests that the liquor customarily used at the christening of a ship might better be dedicated to beverage purposes, we feel bound to protest against any such modernist scheme of versification. The redeeming feature of this...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: STRAIN OF MIDYEARS HITS MT. AUBURN ST. | 1/29/1926 | See Source »

...though examination monitors are rather cheerless brethren. I have just found that there is an even worse outfit--the Baptists. In Herr Mencken's monthly a long article by James D. Bernard dissolves any of my fond hopes for the Baptists of the world. In truth the casual reader of Mr. Bernard's essay could easily believe that the only difference between Baptist and Moron is philologic. Now this may not hurt you; it may even amuse you. But you, of course, are not a Baptist...

Author: By D. G. G., | Title: THE CRIME | 1/29/1926 | See Source »

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