Word: writer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...list of speakers is Kathleen Norris*, writer. At a preliminary meeting in Manhattan "arranged by Mrs. John D. Rockefeller, Jr.," Mrs. Norris ejaculated...
...writer of this report does not pretend that he is better than anyone else in this respect; he has probably been worse. In a final report, however, one hopes to pass on to future officers something which will suggest to them what the Brooks House ought to be. The same number of prominent men in each class should be giving all their extra time to Brooks House as are giving it, for example, to the Crimson...
...heard the program. One in particular was from a young girl who had pleaded with her father for six months with the result that a radio was finally installed in her home on Friday. The first thing her father heard on the set was the Lampoon concert and the writer of the letter seemed heart broken over the fact that her father had impulsively thrown the whole radio out of the window...
...recent attack on publishers and booksellers by a writer in the New York Herald, on the ground that they handicap true artistic development by insisting on books of about seventy-five thousand words, is partly justified, partly undeserved. For some reason, this particular size must be advantageous to the publisher-either for technical reasons or because the public prefers it and buys it most readily. In the latter case, the publisher is not altogether accountable...
Gutzon Borglum, famed sculptor: "In The New York Times were published summaries of the peace plans of a number of unsuccessful contestants for the Bok award. My plan was included, as were also those of Charles W. Eliot, Bishop Charles H. Brent, David Starr Jordan, Simeon Strunsky (editorial writer on The New York Times) Dr. M. Carey Thomas (President Emeritus of Bryn Mawr College), William S. Culbertson (Vice Chairman U. S. Tariff Commission...