Word: writer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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From the days of Poe, when the detective story was literature, it has de generated. Today, it is usually, writer and reader alike, a mere intel lectual concoction, a puzzle, dependent for interest entirely on its solution, but cast in literary form, with perhaps few thrills of horror thrown in for good measure. The two following examples belong to the latter development but, in their group, they are considerably above the average...
...acquisition of Professor Puig I Cadafalch is a great step for the University. The importance of this versatile Spaniard is shown by the statement of Professor A. Kingsley Porter, Professor of Fine Arts, who declared yesterday: "Puig, I Cadafalch, architect, archaeologist, statesman, and writer, was for many years president of the Mancumanitat in Barcelona, where he took active part in political questions of the day. He was also one of the leading spirits in building up the Institute of Catalan Studies, Which has become an exceedingly important centre for research, especially in artistic and archaeological fields...
Miss Alice Brown, writer of realistic New England stories, of Children of Earth (the $10,000 Winthrop Ames prize play), of several other long and short plays of beauty and dramatic value, is a kindly lady, born in New Hampshire, living on Pinckney Street, Boston, whose sense of humor is constantly present. Gray-haired, with great dignity, with a constant smile, this woman who gives place to few others in the field of the American short story arrived at a "literary party" recently with a catnip mouse for the cat of the household, "Napoleon...
...Religion in Cambridge" receives due attention. Under the guise of inviting us to Satanism and its forbidden fruits, the writer gets in some stout work in behalf of the Anglo-Catholic position in matters ecclesiastical, and conveys certain, prosy information as to the local status of that denomination, which might adorn any church year book. Appleton Chapel is dismissed as a "sad memorial, to the dry bones of New England Liberalism." So be it. I preach there occasionally. Who am I to question it? But I can subscribe whole heartedly to the statement that "the most deeply religious element...
Many able adapters of the pit-a-padding rhythms have been concerned with these developments: Fatherly Theodore Snyder, composer of The Sheik; George M. Cohan, the Irish jigamarig, writer of buck-and-wing dips; George Gershwin, ingenius, musicianly; Jerome Kern, melodist; Tintinnabulator Zev Confrey, who wrote Kitten-on-the-Keys. But more important than any of this company is a certain Israel Baline who took the name of an English actor and a German city, became known to the public as Irving Berlin. For the last ten years, he has written a national anthem a year. His prodigality has never...