Word: writer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Writer, editor, authority on the Far East, Eleanor Franklin Egan died last week in Manhattan. She began writing at 18 as a correspondent for 'Leslie's Weekly during the Russo-Japanese War. In Japan, she was married to Martin Egan who then represented the Associated Press. Later, they edited together the Manila Times. During the War, Mrs. Egan wrote many articles from the Mesopotamia front. She was one of four women on the American delegation at the Limitation of Armaments Conference. Of late, she has contributed a series of articles on the Orient to The Saturday Evening Post...
...mustache-grew to know Woodrow Wilson well. Afterward, Mr. Wilson gave him access to his papers, and Mr. Baker produced, two years ago, Woodrow Wilson and World Settlement, a three-volume exhaustive study of the Versailles Peace. It was probably Mr. Wilson's perception that he was a writer of earnestness, intelligence and accuracy as well as of force and spirit that won him the opportunity of making his three-volume study...
...prose narratives by Mr. Smart, Mr. Edmonds, and Mr. Finney. In the editorial on the closing of Memorial Hall, the voice of the Advocate joins the crowd, muttering revolt against the powers that control the university. After administering a sensible old fashioned antidote to the recent sentimentality, the writer points out hat considerable power of directing university policy exists in undergraduate hands, ready to be exerted whenever those who have the power choose to think and act instead of grumbling at policies which the discontented have been too indifferent to shape...
...public," he said the other day. ''He hasn't any right to give them the sort of story they don't expect from him. He must keep faith with them and do his best to see that his work never bores them. That is the writer's unforgiveable...
Alden Sampson was well known as a big game hunter in the United States. He has sponsored several movementts for the protection of game in this country. As an author he is best known as the writer of "Studies in Milton and Essays on Poetry...