Word: readers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...business editor of a publication is ever noticed by the temperamental members of the literary board, that an invitation to review the work of the latter cannot be passed by. It may be reasonable to assume that the business editor represents the point of view of the average undergraduate reader who peruses the magazine...
...article "Drifters" by Freeman Lewis must cause even the most casual reader to pause for a moment and think. Mr. Lewis has a very interesting idea, apparently instilled into him by his tutor, which he presents somewhat vaguely. But the article is more than worth the time consumed in reading it, if only to allow one to snort in disagreement and to turn on to something requiring less thought, which latter seems rapidly becoming a favorite with the majority of contemporary readers...
...treatment of some of the disappointed aspirants for the White House holds an unusual interest. Perhaps his pages will offer some value to the beaten--he adduces evidence to prove that the best man has not always won--but at all events they should be valuable to any reader interested in American politics...
Walter Lippmann, always an extremely lucid writer, turns on the Scopes trial and Mayor Bill Thompson's campaign against English propaganda a mind trained to observe and comment. His series of six brief essays turns both cases around and upside down, exhibiting to the reader far more facets than he would ordinarily have considered...
...often that one finds a book written purely and frankly with no ulterior motive but to give pleasure to the reader. It is the fashion with contemporary novelists to try to draw a picture of life as they see it, and for the most part they see it--darkly. For the most part, as a result, while their stories may be interesting for any one of a number of reasons, they are not always pleasant...