Word: kalem
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...without windows, its inward sloping lines and its severe plainness it was called a King's Tomb."† The Author. In spite of his name Manuel Komroff is a Manhattanite (1890), Yaleman (of no degree). Having studied engineering, he earned his first pay writing music for the old Kalem cinema, then got a job as art critic. The Russian Revolution lured him to Petrograd, made him editor of the Russian Daily News, then drove him out of the country. Until critics began to hail his spare-time writing, Author Komroff survived by hack-writing for women's-wear...