Word: writer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Secretly Married. Guy R. Bolton, 41, noted playwright, writer, divorced husband of Marguerite ("California Nightingale") Namara; to Mary E. Radford of New York...
...Lyric-writer Bolton, with P. G. Wodehouse and Jerome Kern, co-wrote among other musical comedies: Very Good Eddie; Oh, Boy; Oh, Lady, Lady...
...have been favorably impressed with the apt manner in which some live ad agency's copy writer has caught TIME'S style. His production of snappy copy has averaged as well if not better than any issue of TIME. You will be frank to admit, I am sure, that not all of your staff members can maintain the swift pace set for them by the master author of TIME'S unique manner of expression. You are fortunate in having this series in the hands of one who could take his place among your capable group of reporters...
...Jimmie" Stevens (changed to Turner in these pages), aged about 35, now lives with his parents in Tacoma, Wash., and, though he contributes successfully to the American Mercury, he has not yet succumbed to the green mists that often steam up from pages of print to obscure a new writer's picture of himself. Appanoose is still at heart the hobo team-hand that he labored to become as a brawny lad of 15 in the hard-rock camps of Montana, Idaho and California, only instead of drawling his story aloud as he learned to do in tumbled bunk...
This sign, printed boldly above a slot-machine in a new Chicago dancehall, was the opportunity. Powder for men. Could you believe it? The Chicago Tribune editorial writer, justly incensed, pounded out a scathing denouncement in which he held up to ridicule the forerunner, the great prototype of the breed that blanched their faces artificially...