Word: writer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There is no more entertaining writer on politics than Clinton W. Gilbert, and there is none better able to estimate political personalities. His interest is much more in men than in issues. It is a great opportunity for him, when a national campaign comes around, to write a book on the dramatis personae of the game...
...action; those early days in New York when he himself set his feet on the downtown pavements and met the shock of the lawless." All this and more for ten cents per week. In his ransacking, Editor Flynn had accomplished the seemingly impossible task of discovering "a wholly new writer whose prolific brain can evolve and depict fresh, sparkling detective situations"-a man comparable, in Editor Flynn's mind, to Poe, Gaboriau, Wilkie Collins, Conan Doyle. This rare being was none other than Richard E. Enright, Police Commissioner of New York City, a man whose "own career demonstrates that...
...week the following men and women arrived in the U. S. on the following ships: On the Aquitania (Cunard)-Alvin W. Krech, Chairman of the Equitable Trust Co., Manhattan; James Stillman Rockefeller, Captain of the Champion U. S. Olympic Crew. On the Olympic (White Star) - Isaac F. Marcosson, magazine writer; Glenn H. Curtiss, airplane manufacturer; James Speyer, Manhattan banker; Elsie Janis, vaudeville actress; Cyril Maude, English actor. On the Rotterdam (Holland-America)-Medill McCormick, senior U. S. Senator from Illinois; Dr. George V. Butte, Republican opponent of "Ala" Ferguson for Governor of Texas. GOING. During the past week the following...
...some bitter editorial writer or acrid political economist who penned these words? So it would seem. Not so. This was a paid advertisement, published by one of the large banks of Manhattan ? the Harriman National Bank...
...does not care to have his War experiences discussed. In this instance, they were heroic ones. That he has been able to see them with detachment, and to view the War with fairness, is one of the things that make him the very unusual person, the very fine writer that...