Word: writer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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That inimitable critic of schnitzels and life, George Jean Nathan, occasionally enters the territory where angels fear to tread. In his last group of clinical notes he disputes no less a person then a gentleman and writer, now too often slighted, one Quintus, Horatius Flaccus of Rome and the Sabine Hills. This Flaccus, whose poetry has gone into several editions, even being used as a text for stylists, once amiably asserted that there was truth in wine. Mr. Nathan objects: there is no truth in wine...
...Herbert J. Spinden, '06. Assistant Curator of the Peabody Museum, and Gregory Mason, writer and explorer, will lead an expedition which will search for records of the ancient Mayas in Yucatan, it was announced last night...
...dwindling incunabula. It is not a matter of tradition, for most of the old families have moved to Manhattan. "Foreigners" and their blowsy women cook goulash and whip children in the houses where 40 years ago candles shone in crystal girandoles, and violins complained all night. A newspaper writer recently referred to Brooklyn as the "City of a Thousand Freaks," and many of the throwbacks who still live there are queer sticks indeed. You see them scurrying along the sidewalk on obscure errands, babbling cheerfully to themselves some as wear Dundreary whisker; some the plaid breeches of a fine...
...editorial writer spoke of "that Big-time Melody Three, Insull, Ford and Wanamaker," in commenting on the fact that each of these three famous men was mentioned in the musical news of last week...
...practice in writing on gleanings from the newspapers develops the 'daily theme eye,' which is to the writer what color values are to the artist; that is, the ability daily to see possibilities in and connect ideas with, seemingly insignificant subjects...