Word: scribblers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...dances in a cabaret to support her family. She shields her weak brother accused of murder. Tom Moore is the Irish cop who makes love to her when he is not busy trailing the real murderer. The directing is stagy, the supporting cast feeble. The story by that prolific scribbler Owen Davis is unhappily reminiscent of that whooping stage success Broadway...
...vilest of tactics of journalism-a gratuitous insult hurled at an honored newspaper builder, a sickly slur cast at a courageous weekly. Don C. Seitz, long business manager of the New York World, was the victim. The Outlook was the insulted weekly. The perpetrator of the offense was a scribbler of editorials for the New York Daily News. Mr. Seitz recently resigned his post with the World and the Evening World. He contributed an article to the Outlook. The editor of that publication, in a column called "Contributors' Gallery," thus summarized the importance of Mr. Seitz's position...
...technique, his style, his manner, there is nothing to be said, save that it is like the technique, style, and manner of every scribbler for "woodpulp publications", garnished previously with a touch of sauciness and rather new spice. We say "previously" advisedly; for as has been hinted, his "Tales" fall below even the standard set by "Flappers" et al.; the sauciness has run dry and the spice become flat and tasteless. The "Tales" show a marked weakening. Fitzgerald went up like a rocket; but now that he has reached his apex and is in danger of descending like the stick...
...final choice is as wise, as it must have been, difficult. "Each in His Generation", by Maxwell Stretchers Burt, published first in Scribbler's Magazine, is undoubtedly and understanding depiction of real people, one that grasps the attention of the reader in sprite of himself. "Contact" by Frances Noyes Hart less certainly deserves its high rating, but, at the same time, the motive that actuated its selection, is clear. It is a story of the spiritualistic outgrowth of the war, highly imaginative, but more than slightly difficult to understand...