Word: reader
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...regular newsstand reader of TIME for the excellent reason that I like to buy it down town and read it on my way home from business. I resent your advertisement on p. 36 of the Nov. 1 issue, in which you offer for sale to the highest bidder several original cover drawings of TIME, but add, "nonsubscribers need not apply." Why this discrimination...
...does TIME inspire one with belief in its conscientious endeavor to be accurate. Any watchful reader will note from time to time instances that seem to indicate an indifference to accuracy. For example, there appears to have been no evidence whatever that Peter Veregin, leader of the Doukhobors, was assassinated; probably instead he was the victim of an accidental explosion...
...Censor"; on its first page appeared a joke that was characteristic of the issue?a joke printed in French, and making a play of the words "habits" (clothes) and "explorer" (to go through). "Translation on page 31," said the editors. "Ha! this matter must be salacious," cried the vulgar reader: ". . . habits de mon mari. J'ai I'habitude de les explorer tous les soirs." Though ignorant of French he would not deign to turn to page 31; no, and what's more he would put the magazine where his wife could not get at it. Had he bothered to read...
...stopped, in which many copies of the Post were purchased by enterprising merchants as a cheap way of getting old paper). So the advertiser's money goes toward paying production and other costs. Yet the advertising must be well worth the price to the advertisers. It gives the reader much more than his nickel's worth -and it gives The Curtis Publishing Co. a handsome profit...
LIFE BEGINS TOMORROW-Guide de Verona (Translated by Isabel Grazebrook) - Button $2.00). The emotional and stylistic tumult of this book will quite dismay the normal reader. It is an attempt to plumb terrific abysses, to scale sheer pinnacles of human nature; and the author, dizzied by exertion, indulges a hot Latin temperament to inartistic excess. With strong physiologic emphasis, the story is told of a medical genius who attends his best friend, an engineering genius. He and the friend's wife are overpowered by love for each other, she becoming enceinte. Death of the husband will mean life...