Word: writer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...legibly written or typewritten on letter paper of good quality of quarter size with a margin not less than one inch all around so that it may be bound up without injury to the writing. The title page of each manuscript must bear an assumed name, and the writer must hand in with his manuscript a seated letter containing his true name and super scribed with his assumed name...
...written a guing, pro and con, the merits and demerits of the publication. Yet in most cases it is the facts that are criticized or applauded, the technique that is judged flawless or faulty, none estimates the spirit in which the subject was approached, the ideals of the writer, or the purpose of the writing. So comes the fame of some War best-sellers...
...only to commemorate these boy-men, but to picture for us the traits of boyhood, those facets of character which make us see the boy in the man, and in the boy judge what the man would have been--had there been only time. The ideals of the writer are the ideals which led the men of whom he writes, the ideals we like to claim as cherished by Harvard...
...Fitzgerald has joined the ranks of the "HaHa" school of ironists. He has made every effort, sometimes it seems through a natural perversity, to mock every one of the aspirations of his characters. Gloria desires above all to be thought clean and in the end she becomes unclean. The writer, Richard Carmel, does not intend to prostitute his art and finally he takes to writing best-sellers. Compared to the Fates of Mr. Fitzgerald, those conceived by Thomas Hardy are a trio of well-intentioned, kindly old ladies taking afternoon...
When the reviewers were engaged in discussing the merits and defects of F. Scott Fitzgerald as a writer, after the publication of his first novel, it was the conventional thing to predict a great future for him and to hope that in his next work he would produce a really great novel. One of the things he must do to accomplish this, he was frequently advised, was to build his novel on a firmer foundation than the sands of a too clever cynicism. Although they carefully refrained from so expressing themselves, one gathered the impression that these reviewers were advising...