Word: readers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fear is the impression your brutally frank description might make on your casual reader, who cannot realize the enormous significance of a personal experience like Beers' being turned to account for the benefit of mankind...
Though his selections have not yet been announced. Professor Copeland will read among other thing stories, and poems appropriate to the Christmas season. Last year the reading contained selections from "The Copeland Reader," including "The 'Eathen" by Rudyard Kipling, and "Christmas Afternoon," by Robert Benchley...
...pieces in Innocent Bystanding have appeared in Mr. Sullivan's column in the World and in the New Yorker. He takes a news item, a musical instrument (the zither, for example), an actress, an animal or the income tax and starts telling about it. Suddenly the reader becomes aware that Mr. Sullivan has left the ground and is loping around in a most ridiculous ether...
...spite of indignant denials, India has been firmly established in the mind of the general reader as a purgatory of child marriages, a hell of sadistic animal torture. Mrs. Beck touches lightly upon these abuses, announces firmly that India has made the greatest spiritual contribution of all time. While the West has been making rapid jerks of progress-materialistic, intellectual, scientific-the East has long since attained a spiritual consummation which -the West cannot forever ignore. Western science has recently discovered evolution in the development of a man's body-Eastern philosophy has always been concerned with evolution...
Nothing of all this will be guessed by any reader of your article, which is wholly unworthy of the standards which you usually maintain...