Word: writer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Rheinstrom must be a very good Jewess, since she possesses the weakness of her race in a full measure. The writer of this page read the article in the TIME Magazine and yet he did not think that any malice or slander was intended by the designation "young Jew." Mrs. Rheinstrom's objection simply represents Jewish hyper-sensitiveness which very often looks for anti-Semitism and finds it in places where it does not begin to exist. The fact of the matter is that we ought to be glad that Mr. Gershwin was characterized by a Gentile writer...
Edwin Franko Goldman is a Jew writer, with musicianly grey hair, an ascetic face, and strong leathery lips of the professional wind-instrument-player...
...Writer Arnold Bennett conversed with Miss Pinchot between the acts of a rehearsal of The Miracle. "A very great man," said he of Director Reinhardt...
...chair instituted in 1921 by the late President Marion LeRoy Burton and first filled by Poet Robert Frost. The chosen was Author Jesse Lynch Williams of Manhattan, onetime (1921) President of the Authors' League, Pulitzer Prize winner (1917, for his play, Why Marry?), novelist and short-story writer of the same kindly school as his fellow Princetonian, Booth Tarkington, and his good friend Julian Street. Mr. Williams, a calm, beetle-browed gentleman who this week turned 54, has not the air of a professional litterateur. Rather does he seem an urbane, drily humorous gentleman of comfortable means and considerable...
Died. John Temple Graves, 68, famed journalist, "Silver-Tongued Orator from Dixie," onetime (1907-19) editorial and feature writer for the Hearst newspapers, old-school Democrat, ardent protagonist of the South's causes; in Washington, D. C, of a complication of diseases...