Word: signed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...possible for our nation and other nations to live and prosper. For nothing is more certain than that the peace and prosperity of the United States are directly dependent upon the prosperity and peace of the world. Such action, public and private, is important chiefly as a sign that the people of the United States recognize this truth...
Practically all the gentlemen who sign these annual opinions (most of them are actually written by professional publicity men) mainly desire to appear cheerful, resolute and yet noncommittal. As literature, the reports are colorless and a trifle tedious as a rule; as prophecy, often ludicrous...
That they intend to give ample play to their vitriolic pen is evidenced by the writers they have selected to aid them. Carl Van Doren, Theodore Dreiser, James Gibbons Hunneker, "a man who because of his official position cannot sign his name," and a member of the staff of the extinct New York Call (Socialist)--all of them with some bone to pick with "nice people"--have contributed to the first number. Although the magazine will be a review, according to its editors "like every other monthly review the world have ever seen," it will be a review...
...Stephen Crane by Carl Van Doren; letters of the late James Gibbons Huneker; The Aesthete: Model 1924 by Ernest Boyd; an article on Hiram W. Johnson by John W. Owens of the Baltimore Sun; Two Years of Disarmament by "a man who, because of his official position, cannot sign this article"; The Communist Hoax by a member of the staff of the extinct New York Call (Socialist) ; The Drool Method in History by a professor of Smith College; Santayana at Cambridge by Margaret Münsterberg, daughter of the late Dr. Hugo Münsterberg...
Ralph Pulitzer, son of Joseph, wrote in tribute: "He thought simply and hated sophistry. He wrote simply and hated florid phrases. He lived simply and hated fuss and feathers. He succeeded simply and became a power and a personality in the United States, writing editorials he did not sign in a paper...