Word: reader
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Slight has been the sympathetic lay reader for the deaf of New England these many years, has been their acting minister the past six months. He takes pains in bringing to all his people the word of God. And this the deaf appreciate because, deprived of a sense and often mocked at, they tend to withdraw from more normal associates. They all too constantly fear a neighbor may be gossiping about them...
...play is an exceedingly sunny charade about a hunchback who did others a great deal of good and finally straightened himself up. The technique is complicated by the fact that the reading of the play takes place within the play. The reader's voice dies, the lights go out and all at once you find actors striding about developing the tale that he has started...
...Medill McCormick), were not mentioned because-great though they are in their profession-they are comparatively unknown to the public (outside of Chicago). "The McCormick & Patterson Daily News" as a phrase is no stronger, no more colorful than "The Daily News"; the words Patterson & McCormick add nothing to the reader's information. On the other hand, the words "Hearst Evening Journal" tell a story; the very mention of the word "Hearst" is more potent than several paragraphs of well written description...
...having his child called an "it." If you do not know the sex of a child when relating an incident, it would be perfectly permissible to repeat the words "the child" or else say "he," for that pronoun is often used to cover both sexes. I am a constant reader of TIME and like it very much. However, I must agree with one of your correspondents that there is nothing very restful about the curt, jerky way you have of telling things. But you do tell the latest news, and one simply must keep up. Some of the letters...
...Keeley Cure is a cure for Keeley. He asks, "Why add one more to the myriad existing anthologies of the world's best poetry?" He has not added "one more." He explains with becoming lightness that he has tried to pick poems for their mental reaction on the reader; for example, if a person suffers from mental malnutrition, he might prescribe spiritual vitamines. The subtitle of his book is "A Pocket Medicine Chest of Verse." He furnishes 14 packets of medicine for specific mental ailments: "Stimulants for a Faint Heart (Poems of Courage)"; "Mental Cocktails and Spiritual Pick...