Word: readers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Reader Maas is editorializing; TIME did not. All praise to Cicero's 70,000. But it would be unique town indeed that could harbor the Capone mob through a decade and fail to gain notoriety...
...Cannot Reader Owen think of anything better to talk to Carmen Miranda about...
Fascism v. democracy is their favorite, though only a brand new reader of novels would find anything new on the subject. In the worst of them, Charles Francis Stocking's Out of the Dust (Maestro, Chicago, $2.75), an American in Germany huffs & puffs through an interminable, blowhard melodrama. Frances Parkinson Keyes's The Great Tradition (Messner, $2.50) pictures in drawing room prose the democratic gropings of a German-U. S. aristocrat in Germany and revolutionary Spain. A cut above them is W. Townend's Rescue of Captain Leggatt (Morrow, $2.50), naively melodramatizing the enmity and brotherly reconciliation...
...French horn (vide TIME, Nov. 13, p. 42) permit a "cover to cover" reader a word...
...with dolls in the "play corner" and other pupils busied themselves with books, Miss Campbell announced: "First grade reading. Five tots marched to the front of the room, seated themselves on a long recitation bench. There Miss Campbell gave them a Christmas story to read in an Elson-Gray reader, sent them back to their seats with work books, in which they had to cross out lines that made no sense, paste appropriate objects on a Christmas tree...