Word: writer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...remarkable an event was this that the press of the nation has been stirred to applaud. And since it "is heralded on the Princeton Campus as the forerunner of the system of self-education which starts next fall", its success seems assured. One writer suggests invidiously that the episode was a mere object lesson engineered by the university press agent, but such suspicion is unbecoming. He should recognize in this the growing desire for student self-expression...
...associated with the early development of this art. That his pictures have been in the eyes of the critics more popular than artistic does not worry him greatly. Here the business of writing is at its most efficient. Rupert Hughes has been hailed by some critics as a fine writer of the realistic school.' Others have patronized him as a popular author of sensational novels. The truth lies, perhaps, somewhere between the two. He has the art of being able to tell a story well. He has a sense of the details of life. He does not always write...
Jack Kofoed, sports writer, published in the Philadelphia Public Ledger conclusive proof that Christy Mathewson is the greatest pitcher of all time. Mathewson, it appears, is the only pitcher-major or minor league-during the last 20 years, who has won 30 or more games in four different seasons. Alexander did it , three times; Johnson and McGinnity twice...
Professor Phelps is widely known as a writer and a critic. His latest work is "Human Nature in the Bible", while others are "Essays on Books", "Essays on Modern Dramatists", etc. He graduated from Yale in 1887, took his Master's degree at Harvard in 1891, and has been teaching at Yale since...
Other authors should regard the fate of Mr. Wells with trepidation. Recently writers have become content with pages that resemble Democratic campaign speeches with all the references to Wall Street expurgated. The old masters never relinquished their ascendancy in the reader's mind by such degradations of language. They found words to express even the complex internal phenomena that cause the modern writers such difficulty. But with the other kinds of freedom which are by-products of democracy, comes the liberty to fill in the spaces for oneself. Apparently, authors trust in the reader's imagination to bridge the gaps...