Word: writer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...nothing so well worth reading as TIME except, of course, the Bible. You will, no doubt, receive some irate letters about the Hobby Horse Article in your Feb. 23 issue. Some will denounce you for over praising-President Coolidge, some for ridiculing him. My private opinion is that the writer of the article has shown unusual insight and justice in his sketch of the President...
...other lecturer is Archibald MacMechan, Ph.D., LL.D., Professor of English literature at Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia. In the Summer School, he will give courses on Shakespeare, Carlyle, and Tennyson. Professor MacMechan, a writer of distinction, and one of the best teachers of English in Canada, received his Doctor's degree in this country at Johns Hopkins University...
...itinerary which will carry the fortunate writer across Europe from Southampton to Naples, is as follows...
...novel of Chicago life. She works as hard every day as the man who stands outside my window now and makes life miserable for me and doubtless for himself with a steam rivetter. She works harder. The period when a novel is being written, for a writer with an artistic conscience, is apparently one of the most difficult things imaginable. Doubts assail, characters will not behave, words will not marshal themselves in neat array. It is my belief that, when an author gets over this pain of production, his product becomes dull and profitless. After six years of newspaper work?...
...from Mutt and Jeff to a "Good Bad Woman," yet Mr. James M. Call draws an analogy between them that should prove more than amusing. An editorial writer on the World, he dares to denounce in the current Nation his journal's advocacy of play censorship. Art may take it or leave it; and if he wants amusement without art, that, too, is up to him. Mr. Cain has brought the argument to the World's own doorstep. Its comic strips lay no claim to artistic intent, and they very frequently lanse into coarseness. If burlesque shows amuse "sailors, soldiers...