Word: writer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Hugh Walpole has said of Young, "When our generation takes the place of the older men, I don't see anyone who gives so much promise of being first of the bunch as he does. For one thing he is a writer of beautiful prose; then he is a real creator of character. He is not confined only to personal autobiography and is developing all the time. He would be, I think, a very interesting lecturer, with all his African experience and his fine critical gift. He would have as much to say about the savages in London as about...
Neithor Mr. Hale nor any other writer can change the fact that Beethoven used to the utmost his great dramatic, poetic and musical genius in the compositior, of the "Missa Solemnis" in order to bring out the great spiritual significance and beauty of the Catholic Mass...
...work, how to be efficient, and how to persevere. It teaches them to think rapidly and correctly and to act accordingly. College trains men for the motion picture business mentally and physically. This business is hard on a man. Whether he realizes it or not, a motion picture writer or actor is working most of the time until his play is produced. Whether he is at work or elsewhere, he is constantly thinking how he should act in this instance, or how is that going to look on the screen...
...Marquis, colyumist-playwright (Old Soak): "Upon reading in Heywood Broun's column a letter, signed 'Don,' which told how many rejection slips the writer had received from editors, I wrote Heywood Broun a letter: -. . . I don't want anybody in the trade to think it is I who have had all these rejections, as it might hurt business. I have been in the writing business 25 years, and have sold every manuscript I ever produced...
...distinguished Magazine of Wall Street, there often appears the signature of its editor and publisher-C. G. Wyckoff. Manhattanites were surprised last week upon learning that this name does not belong to a brother, cousin, nephew, uncle or any other blood relation of Richard D. Wyckoff, the financial writer who founded the magazine in 1907. The name is that of his wife- Cecelia Gertrude (Shere) Wyckoff. The secret came out with news that Mr. Wyckoff had sold to Mrs. Wyckoff for $500,000 his minority holding in the publication, which she had built up from...