Word: scribblers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ruthless practitioner of Realpolitik, was shocked at the low moral code of writers. "If your work deserves statues," he wrote, "your conduct merits chains." Voltaire wrote to friends: "The King is an exceptional man-very attractive at a distance." The pair resumed their friendship later, since Frederick, an incorrigible scribbler of poor verse, could not bear to have anyone but Voltaire edit and polish his poems. As Author Nicolson succinctly puts it, "The literary vanity of soldiers passes human comprehension...
...less than 18% of the electorate had yet to make up its mind about how to vote in November. And Syndicated Columnist Joseph Alsop devoted an entire column to criticizing Gallup's methods. "In the newspaper trade," wrote Alsop, "it is usually considered bad form for one wretched scribbler to make remarks in print about the work of another. Yet an exception seems to be justified in the case of the inquiring Dr. George Gallup's important first poll after the national conventions...