Word: writer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...editorial in the Harvard CRIMSON of October 14, headed "It's Clever but is it Art?" serves admirably to point the article in the Saturday Evening Post which it criticises. If the writer really believes that familiarity with so significant an event as the Treaty of Utrecht indicates "a pedantic hankering after specific facts" and that the date of so significant a landmark in the history of English literature as the appearance of Tottel's Miscellany is to be considered deadwood. I feel sure he is in a fair way of becoming the type of college graduate (not limited...
...Mackarness, who is known as Mr. Hugh MacLean to moving picture lane, is a motion picture producer and a scenario writer...
...death of Anatole France deprives contemporary French literature of its leading figure. Not since Victor Hugo has any writer exerted a more profound influence upon the thought and writing of his time. Unlike Hugo, however, Anatole France stands not in the role of magi, pointing the way that to others lies hidden. His delight was the unrestrained play of ideas. Not partisan, except in the larger service of Truth, he loved to stand aside and give every idea its inning, while with characteristic French humor he poked fun at them all. Stimulating and suggestive to individual thought...
...will, living beyond his intellectual income. He is a dilettante, an amateur, what he once ruefully called himself- a "Nearly." He knows good prose when he sees it; memorable bits of it haunt him. ... But he has neither the flair nor the facility of a writer. He loves poetry without being in the least a poet. He 'gets' philosophy without being technically expert or agile or spiritually profound. He admires scholarship truly and yet has not the patience nor the exactness of the scholar...
...Hermann Hagedorn, the author of the letter, is a member of The Players Club of New York, has had several plays produced both in New York and in Cambridge by the Dramatic Club, and is the writer of numerous well-known poems. He is the author of "Theodore Roosevelt" and of "Roosevelt in The Bad Lands". He is a trustee of the Roosevelt Memorial Association and is a member of the American Association of Arts and Letters...