Word: readers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...quarrels among sophisticated children, well-bred war between their middle-aged bachelor guardian and the widow of his choice. Falling short of greatness, The Children is an eminently entertaining tragi-comedy of the times. Sinners will ignore, pharisees gloat upon a moral which is happily remote from the common reader...
Have been an intermittent reader of TIME since my first year in Amherst, 1923, and have always enjoyed watching your progress due, in my estimation, to the full although condensed information found therein...
...Intermittent Reader Fenlason write to the Virginia Dare Vineyards, Inc., Penn...
Deliberately to hurt the serious reader, to lacerate his peace of mind-such is the present avowed purpose of Count Hermann Keyserling. "I hope," writes this big-boned Latvian Count, who has penned two U. S. best sellers,† "I hope that all Pharisees, all Philistines, all nitwits, the bourgeois, the humorless, the thick-witted, will be deeply, thoroughly hurt. . . . [My purpose is] to demonstrate the absurdity of all nationalist self-glorification...
Andre Maurois, able French author (Ariel, Disraeli), is adept at picking representative material-albeit trite-in order to write a book, to father an essay. Deftly, for the New York Times, he took the main points for and against Prohibition, dangled them before the reader's eye, then put them away, told what dangling Prohibition arguments have taught him. Says M. Maurois...