Word: writer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Arthur Brisbane, famed editorial-writer, pictured Rockefeller haranguing his men on The Psychology of Attempting the Impossible, a favorite and perfected theme of his astonishing great-uncle; pictured him stirring them with winged words, plucked bright and burning from the original Greek of the first Olympic leaders...
...irritate the man by personal remarks.' Oh, well, even Mr. Brisbane can't read everything. The press agent, if such he was, had succeeded in outwitting the combined intelligences of two Zoo-Directors, the City Editor of The New York Times, Arthur Brisbane, an editorial-writer on the New York Herald-Tribune, and doubtless several others...
...Lafayette (French)?Grantland Rice, famed sports writer; Prosper Champion, "sparkplug king" of Flint, Mich...
...editorial writer points out, wholesale changes in the vernacular are not so easily induced. "Pocket billiards" is still "pool" to the general public, for all the efforts of Brunswick-Balke-Collender...
Zane Grey is a good writer. His immense popularity should not dim that fact. His descriptive passages sometimes glow with beauty and imagination. He is one of the few novelists who appeals consistently to the Average American. His characters are heroic, they are unreal, they catch and hold the imagination. It is probably this last fact, and the fact that he writes so much, that keeps him from being a "critic's" writer. But there are few living authors who know the out-of-doors so well, and who can write of it so vividly...