Word: writer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Tarnish. The advent of a new dramatist and of a new star made the production, of this play particularly significant. Gilbert Emery, soldier of fortune, writer, actor, is the author. Ann Harding, an able but previously undistinguished player, is the actress to whom the wise men carried their literary frankincense and myrrh...
Dean Stone was graduated from Amherst in 1894, a year ahead of Calvin Coolidge, and later from Columbia Law School. His reputation is wide and high as practitioner, law teacher, legal writer. He became Dean of Columbia in 1910, instituted an immediate elevation of the scholastic standard...
Married. William Rose Benet, poet, one of the editors of The Literary Review (New York) to Mrs. Elinor Hoyt Hichborn Wylie, poet, author of Black Armour. Daughter of the late Henry M. Hoyt, Solicitor General under President Taft, she married in 1906 Philip S. Hichborn, lawyer and writer. After his death she married, in 1916,. Horace Wylie, whom she divorced last Spring, charging nonsupport...
There is no need of handing over the pamphlet to a professional advertisement writer and asking him to give it a severe injection of "pep". On the other hand it is poor policy to make the "big stick" the most apparent thing in the descriptions. It would seem feasible to print a special pamphlet for incoming freshmen with a full description of the content of each possible freshman course. The description alone will be sufficient attraction without further flourishes and furbelows or more or less veiled threats of probation...
Wallace Irwin's sense of humor was constantly with him in those days. He wrote light verse and lighter prose. He was a burlesque writer for the Republic Theatre in San Francisco. Before John V. A. Weaver was out of short pants, he had written The Love Sonnets of a Hoodlum and other poems "in American." His Letters of a Japanese Schoolboy made firm his reputation. Since then he has turned away from humor determinedly to write serious novels. Yet, principally, he is a lover of a good story. He will tell you the complicated plot...