Word: writer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Died. The Very Rev. Henry Wace, 87, Dean of Canterbury since 1903, from constitutional exhaustion. A prolific writer for 40 years, he always refrained from writing on Sunday, left his desk at the stroke of twelve on Saturday night...
...Alumni Bulletin, a prize for the best suggestion of a subject for discussion offered by March 1, 1924. Now it continues its intellectual curiosity and challenges the "Advocate" to the tune of 100 dollars for its most striking article of the year. The prize will go to the writer who has produced during the college year in prose or verse something of literary merit but above all, something striking, the most striking...
...writer is at his worst when he loses his grip on the pinnacle and goes tumbling down the mountain side to land with a dull and prosy thud in the world of his creation. As soon as he ceases to be the hermit of the high place; as soon as he begins to share the whims and fancies of mortality; as soon as he begins to take sides and see his characters as mouthpieces of his merely temporal cogitations, he ceases to be the climbing demigod, becomes the plodding propagandist. J.A.T...
...history is simple. He was born in Shawnee County, Kan. He was educated at a Michigan normal school. At his majority he entered journalism. He rose by steady grades: reporter, city editor, political correspondent, editorial writer, editor. His service was with five newspapers: the Grand Rapids Herald, the Grand Rapids Eagle, the Detroit Evening News, the Detroit Free Press, the New York World...
...when he was editor of the Detroit Free Press, that he first attracted the attention of Joseph Pulitzer, the Great Pulitzer. The (health of William Henry Merrill, chief editorial writer of The World, was failing. The eyesight of Mr. Pulitzer himself no longer permitted him to serve in the full capacity of editor. Cobb was called East. He became Mr. Merrill's chief assistant. When Mr. Merrill died he became chief editorial writer of The World, and on Joseph Pulitzer's death in 1913, he succeeded to the title of editor...