Word: writer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...writer of the article known just a little more about Miami and what a delightful, wonderful city it is and how many thousands of people of the highest type of American citizenship make it their year-round, permanent home he would not have written...
Died. Sam Crane, 71, famed baseball writer, once "the greatest second baseman of the major leagues" ; in Manhattan, of pneumonia contracted while accompanying the Giants on their western trip. For many years he wrote of baseball for the New York Evening Journal and was famed for the gravity with which he handled...
...thesis that "Uncle Sam Needs a Wife," finding a thousand flaws in our man-made government, a woman wrote a book.* It was calculated to show how the feminine touch would set things right. One of the chapters was titled, "Wanted-A Female Moses." Ida Clyde Clarke, the writer, found that women needed a leader-one chosen not by men, but by themselves-and proceeded likewise to state what, in her belief, constitutes the inadequacy of certain women leaders of today...
THUS FAR-J. C. Snaifh-Appleton ($2.00). Rushing alongside the horny-hided thriller-reader, Writer Snaith delivers pointblank a tale about a scientist who grafted the fourth dimension upon the fetus of a high anthropoid. The offspring was nerveless, bloodless, sexless, deathless, supra-intelligent and psychic. Unforturfately, it was also sadistic and clawed out a number of people's carotid arteries, among them that of the scientist. Also unforunately, a very biological biologist and a very bemonocled amateur detective pile the book with slovenly heaps of "scientific" jargon, consisting chiefly of proper names that Writer Snaith looked...
Olden Days. An historically-minded writer in The Christian Science Monitor unearthed a report of Yale's commencement exercises in 1820: "'The day was very fine and an unusual number of visitants from abroad was present. . . . The exercises of the day were received with universal approbation and reflected the highest honor upon the institution and the Young Gentlemen who graduated...