Word: writer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...writer of the article, setting forth grievances which were to apply equally well to his successor 50 years later, and ending up on a note of sincere and righteous indignation, says...
...negotiations with this writer were conducted by one of our Associate Editors but when the matter was brought to my attention, I said that Collier's would consider publishing such an article only on the conditions that every important allegation be substantiated by documentary evidence, that the Harvard athletic authorities take full responsibility for any charges made, and that the spirit of the article itself be such as to appeal to men of fair minds, regardless of their athletic or other affiliations. The article as submitted met none of the tests laid down and was immediately and finally rejected...
...racy, accurate talk of cowmen about their animals, to the ineffable silence of mountain ranges. The serious thesis, finally, that men are better outdoors than in; that the Antaeus myth is sober truth; that cities bury their builders' souls, is argued with a militance amply justified by the writer's competence. Few of his countrymen are as civilized as Author Burt...
...example; Violinist Albert Spalding; one-armed Alan Winslow; husky Dr. "Hash" Gile of Princeton and New York. They will applaud the terse descriptions of air action, heavily salted with realism and cynicism. They will admire Clayton Knight's sketches of havoc-ridden skies. They will remember the writer as they remember other men in his pages-big "Ros" Fuller, Clarence Fry, John Goad, "Hobey" Baker, "Micky" Mannock, superb Major Bishop (and his wife) and Pilot Springs, who flew with milk of magnesia in one pocket, gin in the other...
...first came among them. Mothers, sisters, wives-but most of all, neighbors-of the young men who years ago flew in France, affected surprise and concern upon discovering that it was not, after all, a very "nice" war. The young men hated their duty and believed, according to this writer, that the best talisman for an airman was "a garter taken from the left leg of a virgin in the dark of the moon...