Word: readers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...have been a subscriber for over three years and a reader for a longer period and I agree with Paul Fisher of Dodge City, Kan., that it is far "more a part of my life than any other magazine...
...embarrassed. I wondered a little, that my friend should ask such an obvious question, being more of a reader than she was. No doubt father and mother both explained afterward...
Professor Francis Arthur Powell Aveling, Reader in Psychology at the University of London, last week offered corrections to the popular notion about laughter, its causes and significance. "The really happy man," he said, "never laughs-or seldom-though he may smile. He does not need to laugh, for laughter, like weeping, is a relief of mental tension-and the happy are not overstrung...
What type of feminine English fiction reader may be calculated to suffer most from "an unprobed spirit of romance"? Why, who but a typist? A pure, attractive, hardworking, intelligent young woman between 25 and 30; the kind Elinor Glyn gushes over and Gilbert Frankau glorifies. She dresses modestly for her work (an "alas, very cheap" fur coat). She discourages the advances of young men on the tops of busses, carries her notes in a neat handbag and would sooner sit home and read in the evenings than gad about at dance places?unless her girl chum is in town...
Happy Ending. Unfortunately, the nature of the worship conducted in the first Westover temple is left vague, except for "Nearer, My God, to Thee." But Mr. Wright assures the reader that "there was not a feature of that service which would not have been endorsed by all churches. There was not a word of the sermon which would not have been endorsed by all ministers. It was simply Christianity in spirit and in fact?and it was nothing else. . . . The groceryman and his four friends knew that they had made no mistake. . . . The minister left the rostrum through the arched...