Word: writer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...White House Spokesman did not mention it last week, but doubtless the President and Mrs. Coolidge heard about it-the conversation of His Majesty T. Goesti Bagoes Djelantik, Rajah of Karang Asem on the Island of Bali in the Dutch East Indies, and one Joseph Patterson, stock broker and writer, who returned home last week and got into the headlines with this piquant chitchat: The Rajah: "Where did you come from?" Mr. Patterson: "From America." The Rajah: "Is that further away than Singapore?" Mr. Patterson: "Much further." The Rajah, producing a newspaper photograph of President Coolidge and Queen Marie...
...TEXAS GUINAN FREE, HOLDS KISSING BEE" euphonistically wrote a New York headline writer. "Texas" Guinan, night club hostess, once virile out-of-door woman, helped her brother "Texas Tommy" herd cattle at the age of ten. Last week, freed by Federal Judge Thomas Thacher of charges of contempt of court for alleged violation of the Prohibition Law, she said: "Thank God, that's over," and plastered "Texas Tommy," Herman Edson, the club manager, ''Mike" Edelstein, her lawyer, with smacking busses. Dry agents testified in the trial, that they found the court's injunction reposing sedately...
...BLUES FOR PAPA AND MAMA BERLIN," "BERLIN GOES WET" said New York picture captions. Irving Berlin, singing waitter and song writer, captured fat headline space when he ran off with Ellin Mackay, daugher of the Clarence Mackay who runs the Postal Telegraph. The occasion: the first picture since the preciptous honeymoon. The "papa and mama": a coy reference to their baby daughter. The "wet": Composer Berlin entering the surf at Palm Beach...
...John Garth sired, the divorcee, Julia, acts "sportingly." Wrench though it is for her, she starts John Garth back to life by leaving Matthew Knowle. . . . Admirers of the British literary male will call Julia "a brick" and the book a triumph. Others may say that Author Owen, a polished writer withal, has merely sublimated a personal desire in the tepid crucible of melodrama...
...theme of "Speak to the Earth," in the hands of a competent writer, might have been worthy of the excellent title, but the author of this novel has bungled it. A discouraged ex-service man tries sheepraising on the Bad Lands of the West, and fails; as he is on the point of suicide, he meets a stray from the East, a shop-girl from Newark, who has been induced by a lady real estate agent to come to a boom town which has failed to boom. What could be more natural than that the hero should take this waif...