Word: writer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Besides being a noted educator, he is also a man of letters of reputation. He is the author of a translation, with texual criticism, commentary, and notes of "Varro on Farming," as well as the writer of a number of volumes prominent among which are "Science in the Roman Empire," "Heracleitus and Modern Theories of the Kosmos" "A Roman Farmstead" and of many magazine articles and reviews in the Classical Quarterly and elsewhere...
...then was the Dominus Apostolicus setting out for the Arctic? He was not, of course, setting out at all! The indiscreet headline writer had created a false impression with regard to the Summus Pontifex by neglecting to make clear that the story run beneath his headline was about R. A. Pope, a minor explorer...
...from California to Manhattan and got a job on the American Magazine. In 1915 he found time to write The Amateur, followed shortly by Salt (of young men). After fighting abroad, he wrote Brass (of marriage) and Bread (of business women), both of them big sellers, big cinemas. "This writer's life," says his motherly wife, "has been what, I suppose, all would-be writers like to dream that life might be." It is "full and satisfied." At 45, he has an estate in California, an apartment overlooking Central Park...
Little, however, as I frequent the palace of the tabloid drama, I have been strongly impressed by one thing: in every picture that I can remember having seen, the writer of the scenario seems to have been constrained to include a banker of an invariably constant type. There is a je ne sais quoi about the moving picture financier which never fails to irritate me. I have tried to find a reason for this badge of the banker, but have failed. So this morning at 9 o'clock, any one who so desires may see me enter the portal...
...Harvard Advocate, lies under some plain disabilities. He cannot compare it with previous issues, or with other enterprises of the kind (if such there be) in this country. In the British Universities there are many student, or sometimes dannish journals, and they have nursed many a notable writer. But the scale, frequency, and resources of such ventures are much greater here. If the contributors, like the managers, are, in the case of the Advocate, of undergraduate standing (and even if they are not), then the level of the writing, like that of the editing, is noticeably high. This impression becomes...