Word: writer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...From his youth", says Mr. H. A. Dobson, "the moralist had moralized; from his youth--nay from his childhood--this letter-writer had written letters, from his youth this supreme delineator of the other sex had been the confidant and counsellor of women. In his boyhood he was secretary-general to all the lovesick girls of his neighborhood; at of even he addressed a hortatory epistle, stuffed with tests to a scandalizing widow; and whenever it was possible, to correspond with any one, he was as 'corresponding' as even Horace Walpole could have desired...
...Coleridge letters are inscribed to one Mr. Tobin, and are full of gossip about the doings of Wordsworth and the writer. Wordsworth's health is referred to as "but so-so", while Hartley Coleridge, later a poet himself, who was about 14 years old at this time, is styled "a young animal." In both manuscripts, which are quite legible, the signature of the writer is well-preserved...
...intelligence and taste of Harvard, as well the intelligence and taste of Harvard, as that of Yale. The Daily News did not hesitate to fly, even at the expense of grammar, in the face of the CRIMSON with a violent editorial closing with a prayer of thanksgiving that the writer was not as one must believe, either a candidates for the Crimson, a fatigued under editor, or forgiving and investigating soul...
...name of D. C. Stephenson, struck off with interlocking capitals, and underscored with a bold line, first appeared in 1921 in Indiana on the register of the Vendome Hotel in Evansville. After it the writer had added, as if to gratify his taste for romantic atmosphere, the words "Dallas...
...more than a rumor--nor can one, lost in the hinterlands of Cambridge, always be quite sure--that a certain gentleman, hight Tunney, lieutenant of Marines, and sometimes called the crowned champion of the world, is to complete the scandal caused by a writer of popular songs, to the extent of entering the Social Register, be it more--then fell is the fortune of all but fatuity. For though when Greek meets Greek, they eat rice pilaf, when prize fighter marries debutante, the public eats the pudding, not alone of publicity, but of despair...