Word: confessionist
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Dates: during 1926-1926
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...publishers Pulitzer of the World were Harvard men; Ralph, the elder, having been graduated an A. B. in 1900; younger Joseph having attended, 1904-06. The executive editor of the World, red-headed Herbert B. Swope, would have been Harvard '03 but for an accident. The lumbering World confessionist-colyumist, Heywood Broun, had sat to Harvard professors from 1906 to 1910. And the World editorial writer, Walter Lippmann, fierce purist, who had doubtless dictated the World's rebuke, had in his precocious youth completed the four-year Harvard course in three years, aged 20 ('09), and stayed...
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