Word: writer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...basis of watching the two men play it is this writer's opinion that Kozeluh could beat the Frenchman. He doesn't attempt to blast his opponents off the court and therefore would fall no easy victim to the infallibility style which Cochet plays so faultlessly. His ground and back court strokes are the most beautiful examples of coordination and effortless skill to be seen on a tennis court. They are of a type to keep an opponent away from the net as much as possible and simply wear him down. On the defense he is if anything faster than...
...greatest living exponent of male sex appeal, to Ina Claire (TIME, May 20). It was particularly startling because up to the moment when their marriage was announced Gilbert was supposed to be betrothed to Greta Garbo, the greatest living exponent of female sex appeal, and Miss Claire to Scenario Writer Gene Markey. She had known Gilbert for only a fortnight. They were married in Las Vegas, Nev., before a little group of cowboys, storekeepers and cinema friends. Those members of the cinema public not familiar with Miss Claire's stage reputation were informed in a flood of publicity material...
Novelist Zweig sued for criminal libel. Last week a Berlin judge listened gravely to Lieut. Col. von Bogen's patrioteering defense, fined him $150, ruled that "no writer need be subjected to such scurrilous personal attacks...
...have trained very few creative artists in any field of art, with the possible exception of literature. Even in that department it is interesting to recall Barrett Wendell's complaint that, during his twenty-five years as a teacher of English composition, he had produced not a single great writer...
...Note--The Crimson does not necessarily endorse opinions expressed in printed communications. No attention will be paid to anonymous letters and only under special conditions, at the request of the writer will names be withheld...