Word: pseudonym
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Franklin knew that his brother would never knowingly print his pieces. So one night he invented a pseudonym, disguised his handwriting and slipped an essay under the printing-house door. The cadre of his brother's friends who gathered the next day lauded the anonymous submission, and Franklin had the "exquisite pleasure" of listening as they decided to feature it on the front page of the next issue...
...childhood sweetheart, "Eric the famous writer." His first book, Down and Out in Paris and London, was a nonfiction account of several months in the late 1920s spent among hoboes and whores, picking hops and washing dishes. Worried about his parents' reaction to his stark life, he took the pseudonym George Orwell - probably from his hero Victorian novelist George Gissing and from the Orwell, a Suffolk river whose precincts the young nature lover hiked. It was a commercial flop, but it established him as a proletarian writer with an eye for detail. He began picking up commissions for essays...
...Suigei, my family's sake, brewed in the southern city of Kochi, embodies the trend. Like many brands, its name evokes local flavor: Suigei was the pseudonym of a sake-loving, Edo-era lord and means "drunken whale." Though production has not increased much in its kura, built in 1872, Suigei has nevertheless increased its revenues 30% over the past decade by concentrating on quality sake. Shigeji Ishimoto, the brewery head, says top-grade daiginjo and ginjo sake account for 75% of Suigei's $6.3 million in sales, up from almost nothing when my grandfather bought it in 1968. Last...
Suigei, my family's sake, brewed in the southern city of Kochi, embodies the trend. Like many brands, its name evokes local flavor: Suigei was the pseudonym of a sake-loving, Edo-era lord and means "drunken whale." Though production has not increased much in its kura, built in 1872, Suigei has nevertheless increased revenues 30% over the past decade by concentrating on quality sake. Shigeji Ishimoto, the brewery head, says top-grade daiginjo and ginjo sake account for 75% of Suigei's $6.3 million in sales, up from almost nothing when my grandfather bought it in 1968. Last year...
...from Karl Marx, Wechsler worked as an organizer at a clubhouse before becoming a professional journalist in the ’60s. He supported himself with writings about the United States, a topic of great interest to the East German public. And he assumed the name Victor Grossman, the pseudonym under which Crossing the River will be published next September...