Word: writer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This wholesale attack on education, has of course, drawn out of storm of opposition; and a writer in the "Century Magazine" has succeeded in beating the psychologists at their own game. By using the results of the same tests, he has proved with remarkable conclusiveness that schooling and efficiency go hand in hand. Incidentally, he has brought to light a good deal of rotteness in the state of education. He has shown that, of those who took the army intelligence tests, the officers were the most successful, with a score considerably higher than that of any group...
...next Communist to be tried will be Robert Minor, cartoonist, writer and former editor of the Liberator, leading Bolshevik monthly in America...
...gentleman across the street to receive in recompense a bright silver dollar and a great deal of moral advice. The athletic English striplings of Henty's confection continue to slay their thousands in every known historical period. But the last few years have only brought forth one writer with a true genius for the " children's story," Hugh Lofting, and he belongs rather with Lewis Carroll than with Henty...
...according to publishers, there is both a crying need for and a wide opportunity open to a writer for boys who possesses a little more than the usual bag of tricks. The audience is immense and vastly eager-it does not require the skill of a Conrad to move its members. Only deliberate affectation or tediousness they will not tolerate-and in those respects they are extremely hard to fool...
This last fact seems to be true of the yarn-spinner. The writer who takes his trade seriously as art with a capital " A " finds the process of creating a masterpiece onerous. Take Joseph Conrad, for example, who made a statement on his arrival here, or was so quoted, that he had never learned to enjoy writing. But the raconteur, whose one guide is a brilliant imagination who lets his only guide be the swift telling of a tale of life, love, mystery and the complications along the side lines. That must be real...