Word: grubbing
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...book can by no means be called dull?its portraiture of German life in town and country during the late sixties and seventies is faithful and exact?its description of a section of that international Grub Street on which nearly every writer of prominence in our day has earned difficult bread, while singularly lacking in bitterness is unflinchingly real...
...France where, one French newspaper suggests, an author who has written more than three books without receiving at least one prize should be given the Legion of Honor for meritorious service to the State. But we may come to it. And why shouldn't we? The stones of Grub Street are still as flinty as they were in Johnson's day, when the adolescent Doctor was forced to hie him to eating-houses where the back of a New foundland dog served the patrons for a serviette. If prizes can rescue some native Arthur Machen from drudgery ? give comparative...
...Arboretum on its hundred and forty acres has shrubs in number and variety sufficient to feed an army of the most epicurean locusts, and grows herbs to satisfy the meanest grub. At Jamaica Plain and in the Forest at Petersham are grown and studied all varieties of North American plants and trees; the Arboretum's annual "lilac week", which is nearly due, brings visitors from all distances; and the display of azaleas and rhododendrons which follows is equally notable...
...popular demand has given rise to a whole colony of "Grub Street" authors, who grind out back work day by day to satisfy their readers. The hopeful author says: "If I can write 5,000 words a day, at $2.00 a thousand, I will earn enough to keep me alive till something better turns...
Altogether "The Mirrors of Grub Street" is a very creditable job. I hope to see The Advocate try it again, with a wider scope, a more serious program-and perhaps a sharper blue-pencil. Meanwhile I am, free to say that to the common or garden sort of outsider, who has been hearing-and sometimes saying himself-that the colleges are not turning out writers of good English, this display affords a most encouraging answer. Indeed, there is apparent in most of this collection a degree of literary finish and sophistication which some weary old hands might envy and emulate...