Word: writer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...writer for two or three years has been taking your publication, the object being to get a condensed survey of the world news without bias...
...writer has no knowledge of what the sentiments of others may be, but he is now requesting that you discontinue the paper with the approaching expiration of his subscription...
Author Proust has been called a human microscope. He called himself a human telescope, prying into people's hidden motives for general psychological laws. Also he is notable as a writer of varied but disconcerting style, due to the extreme length of some of his sentences. To enjoy Proust is to be impressively bookish. Accordingly, Proust is a favorite among poseurs as well as purists...
Thus ran the story which J. P. McEvoy energized with Broadway chatter in his novel Show Girl (1928). And thus runs the plot of the musical show which Producer Ziegfeld, as Writer McEvoy had planned, has energized with girls, Gershwin tunes, and spillings from the largest cornucopia of talent in the girl-show business...
...citizen and worker, is obvious and anything but original. But it is done so cheerfully, so sincerely, with such brave and decent effort at realism, that it far transcends what might be banality. It is a warm, vigorous, if somewhat naïve book by a writer who has known and taken seriously all kinds and conditions of his fellow men. The Book-of-the-Month Club chose it for July...