Word: concoctor
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...Emetic "We." Academician Bergen Evans, an English professor at Northwestern who doubles as the question concoctor for The $64,000 Question, takes the easygoing view that language is what its users make of it. It is usually Critic Brown who is the first to cry Fowler. Both quick-witted, the two men also strike sparks with contrasting personalities: stocky Evans, 52, often rides roughshod over the conversation with a donnish cackle and a rapid, sing-song voice that strikes some listeners like chalk drawn across a blackboard; lean, white-haired Brown, 57, a veteran lecturer and darling of women...
...such a strictly business plant there is little room for luxury. Only Arthur Brisbane is pampered. The famed concoctor of editorial paragraphs has a private library, dressing room, shower bath, should he be too busy for those luxuries in his tall Ritz Tower. But even in his spacious suite the desks, where work is done, are made of metal. No New Year's work was done on them; Mr. Brisbane far from Manhattan as he often is, wrote paragraphs from a desert in California...
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