Word: editor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Republican Editor...
...Editor Ratner does not presume to jazz up Dewey's honest prose, but he does great service in segregating from the great mass of Dewey's controversial writings the essence of his thought, and arranging in lucid sequence Dewey's conception of habits, impulse, truth, in their relation to civilization...
...derelict sea-captain, cadging drinks on the Baltimore wharves (according to the present editor), accosted one Brantz Mayer, swapped yarns for liquor. The captain, the accosted, the yarns, are all of a piece with garrulous South African traders who peddle reminiscence with their kitchenware. In pleasant 19th century cadences Mayer sets down the story of this Canot, Italian by birth, American by adoption, who sailed the last legal slaver before the trade was outlawed. Forced thereafter to bootleg his valuable black cargo, he practiced the proverbial sardine economy of space in his barracoon, packing his human loot spoon fashion...
Miss Earhart was last week appointed associate editor of Cosmopolitan Magazine (Hearst) to conduct a monthly department on popular aviation...
...attended seven different colleges here and abroad [including Harvard]. ... I came back to America on the last western trip made by the Lusitania, and went to a sanitarium for two months." In short, S. S. Van Dine is Willard Huntington Wright, critic and Smart Set's onetime editor, whose history may be found in any copy of Who's Who. He lives in Manhattan. "Recently," says he, "a bright reporter, who had read too much, oh, far too much! Sherlock Holmes, conceived the brilliant idea of visiting my home (I live in an old remodeled dwelling of many...