Word: novelist
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...novelist began by emphatically vetoing the prevalent idea that the traditional advice of literary men to ambitious writers is to avoid such a career. "If you wish to write, do so," he said. "If you fail you will soon find out, and in all events you will enjoy yourself...
...Union, which has already broadened its activities in many ways. Notable among the latter are the frequent addresses held by the management in the Living Room. These have given the student body an opportunity to hear such men as Commander Read, and Walter Hampden ' 00. Hugh Walpoie, the British novelist, comes tonight, and Professor Stephen Leacock, the humorist and economist, Viscount Grey, the new British Ambassador, and Donald MacMillan, the Arctic explorer, have all promised to address the club some time in the near future...
...novelist is the son of the Bishop of Edinburgh, and was educated at King's College, Canterbury, and Emmanuel College, Cambridge. In 1909, while only 25 he published his first novel, "The Wooden Horse," which met with considerable popularity. Every year since he has produced another book, each of which has been very successful. His latest books are "The Dark Forest," "The Secret City," and the most recent, "Jeremy...
Hugh Walpole, the distinguished British novelist, will speak in the Living Room of the Union on Thursday, November 13, at 8 o'clock. Members of the Union are fortunate in being able to listen to this celebrated writer, who will speak on "College Men as Novelists," drawing much of his subject matter from his own experience at Cambridge University...
...Hearst headlines escapes the insistent satire of Lampy's humorists. From the late Ella Wheeler Wilcox to the latest novelist they have their pet attainments pricked. Galsworthy, Roche, King, Curwood, Rhinehart, Chambers and Ade--not to mention the artists Flagg, Benda and McCutcheon--all may see themselves as plenty of others see them, on receipt of twenty-five cents by the Lampoon circulation department...