Word: writer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...included, sitting next to each other, Frank A. Munsey, who supplied the food, Lord Robert Cecil, Senator Beveridge of Indiana, William Randolph Hearst and Thomas W. Lamont, of J. Pierpont Morgan & Co., all most becoming and appropriate. "There was also William C. Reick, who went reporting with this writer nearly forty years ago, and Dayton, publisher of the Evening Journal, the ablest publisher with one possible and doubtful exception in the United States. There was J. A. Moore, 'The Magazine King'; also Ochs, who owns The New York Times, and is constantly hiring more warehouses to hold...
...turns, he may some day be sorry that he did not take enough Classics in college at least to acquire a reading knowledge of Greek and Latin and to acquaint himself at first hand with some of the ancient masterpieces. For he will find that most of the great writers in our own literature and in the literatures of Italy, France, Spain and Germany were indebted to the ancients not only for phrases, thoughts, incidents and imagery, but for the larger matters of literary form. The moderns are not less original for this homage to tradition; in fact...
Today is the last opportunity for submitting manuscripts in competition for the Lloyd McKim Garrison Prize. The writer of the best poem on "The Striker" will receive a prize of $125 and a silver medal. The compositions must be handed in before 5 o'clock at the office of the secretary of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, 9 University Hall...
...Kathleen Norris of today is a strikingly handsome woman who looks like a duchess and, fortunately, isn't one. "The greatest fun in life," she told me, "is being forty." One of the most highly paid and the most popular of American women writers, she has pleased the critics as well as the public with at least two of her books, Mother and the recent Certain People of Importance. This tall, aquiline-featured, dominant woman is of literary family. Her husband, a brother of Frank Norris, is Charles Norris, whose Salt and Brass are both American novels of worth...
...sooner have the anaesthetic merits of ethylene been successfully demonstrated by Chicago physiologists than another candidate for sleep producing honors arises in Germany. A writer in The London Lancet describes an anaesthetic discovered by Professor K. Gauss, of Freiburg, composed of 40% purified acetylene and 60% oxygen, deodorized by oil of pine. Already more than 500 operations are said to have been performed under it with no harmful results...