Word: writer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...probable and large, and let these crazy modernist fellows severely alone. But today the Italian modernists are enjoying quite a vogue throughout the world. The head of the Universal Edition of Vienna, which with Breitkopf and Hertal has the highest rank among central European music publishing houses, told the writer that his firm had been able to continue business largely because of the fact that they held the copyrights on the Italian modernists, whose works now brought royalties from all over the world, royalties not fabulously large in the eyes of other peoples, but, with the insane rate of exchange...
Jack Dempsey: "A facetious editorial writer for The New York Times referred to me as ' Mr. John Dempsey.' My real name, as everyone knows, is William Harrison Dempsey...
Heading the committee is Miss Esther Everett Lape, writer and a prominent supporter of Governor Pinchot, elected in Pennsylvania last Fall. Other members of the committee are: John W. Davis, former Ambassador to Great Britain; Federal Judge Learned Hand; William H. Johnston, President of the International Association of Machinists; Nathan L. Miller, recent Governor of New York; Henry L. Stimson, former Secretary of War; Melville E. Stone, of the Associated Press; Mrs. Gifford Pinchot, wife of the Governor of Pennsylvania; Mrs. Ogden Reid, wife of the publisher of the New York Tribune; Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt, wife of the former...
...Contents. In An Autobiographical Foreword* the poet (whose personality is probably better known to a larger number of more diverse audiences than that of any other living American bard) devotes 28 pages to reminiscences of his youth, answering with kindly humor the thousand-and-one foolish questions any writer of prominence is always asked about himself and his work, and attacking the popular newspaper legend that pictures him as a noisy apostle of poetical jazz. He explains his love for Egypt; his admiration for Poe; his forbears; his reason for going on the road, a new beggar-troubadour, trading...
Recently returned from a year in London is Joseph Anthony, a young American writer whose two novels are not so well known as they should be. Anthony is a quiet man, with slow speech, slow dreams; but they are profound. He has, too, a profound artistic creed which was manifest in the care shown in the writing of his novels. The Gang, a picture of boy life and street life in Manhattan, was received with unusual praise in England as well as in the United States. Of his new novel, he has already destroyed one draft. He says that...