Word: columnist
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Heywood Broun is as much a phenomenon in American letters as any other man of whom I can at this moment think. Sport writer, feature writer, dramatic critic, columnist, essayist, novelist?he does all of these things, if not artistically, certainly successfully. His column in The New York World is followed avidly. His first novel, The Boy Grew Older, was received with some critical praise. One book of essays from the pen achieved a healthy sale. In my opinion, he is great only as a journalist; but as a journalist he is indubitably great...
...encounter Henry B. Fuller, one of the quietest and most significant figures in the progress of American letters. There is the University of Chicago, with its Robert Herrick, whose Homely Lilla brings him back to fiction after several years of silence. There is Evanston, with Keith Preston, the gay columnist and gayer Greek professor, with Henry Kitchell Webster and Edwin Balmer, both popular novelists. There is Schlogel's, chiefly picturesque as a cafe by reason of pre-prohibition memories, where gather the denisons of The Chicago Daily News, where one may find Harry Hanson, the Heywood Broun of Chicago...
Thus Lee Clavering, brilliant young columnist, finds himself in the irritating predicament of being devoted to a woman with a lurid past and over half a century of it. They decide to wipe out the past conclusively, and Mary Zattiany feels herself on the brink of recommencing life, experiencing the unaccustomed emotions of young love. But the past will not be killed, and at last Mary realizes that the time for love has gone and that her work in the world is to use in the political salons of Europe the weapon of her old mind sheathed in a young...