Word: reader
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sirs: A letter published in the Sept 14 issue of TIME pleading for more simple English words" may be only that one reader's request, but won't you please consider those of us who delight in coming upon new or unusual words? To me, a perusal of your incomparable paper is fraught with hid den joys because of the sport attendant on sedulously ferreting out the meaning of such refreshingly unusual expressions. When I read TIME, a modern dictionary is usually at hand; otherwise, I mark the words as I happen upon them...
...always interested in National and International politics-also other news features I like your brevity. But I do not like the mystery in which you enshroud many of your news items. I wonder why you can't boil the news down in plain English-in language the average reader can understand. Why all the display of more or less profound scholarship...
...OLIVER H. H. BLACK Reader Black's points are well taken. The phrase, illadvised, must never recur...
...Philadelphia to rub wits and read papers on the lives, times, works, and in the manner, of worthy men of English letters. Author Newton declares that the meetings were a liberal education; and since he further declares this education was the only one he ever received, the reader can but think what a singularly fine little club that fine little club must have been...
...poetry that Reader Tennant liked was: Those lovely girls! They have eyes like diamonds, teeth