Word: writer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...optimistically the writer of the present article approaches the question of what can be done to provide new life for the dying college "lit". His conclusion is that the college Pegasus of the future would do well to concentrate its entire attention upon interpreting the life and spirit of the university...
...menacing jut of his heavy jaw, the Seņor President indicated to correspondents his intense displeasure at a statement issued, last week, from a secret hiding place, by the Bishop of San Luis Potosi, now spokesman for the Roman Catholic Hierarchy in Mexico. Opening with a reference to the writer's "serenity" and "calmness," this epistle denied that the Episcopate or clergy had had any part in the recent "excesses" (dynamitings), and went on to announce that priests who obey the Government's decree requiring them to register their names and addresses (TIME, Feb. 25) "do not commit...
Detective Writer Joseph Hilaire Belloc is French by birth (1870), English by naturalization (1902). Arrogant, self-assured, his parliamentary career was remarkably unsuccessful. A devi for work, he is a genius for play, bringing to it tremendous energy, gargantuan exuberance...
That incomparably prolific and reliable writer of detective stories, J. F. Fletcher, publishes four stories simultaneously, all highly readable: The Ransom for London (Dial, $2) is scientific crockery on the grand scale?death comes mysteriously to the Prime Minister's prize bulls and to a party of 19 toffs, before the Deadly Three are scotched without their ransom. The House in Tuesday Market (Knopf, $2) has for clues three cigars and a scrap of pink paper, but psychic waves, deadly chemicals, and amateur theatricals find them sufficient. The Secret of Secrets (Clode, $2) is a purely scientific invention...
...latest, if not the last, discussion of the House Plan, which appears in the New York Times, is perhaps the most authentic extra-official treatment yet accorded to the subject. Confining himself to easy interpretation of the scheme in phrases which have already become familiar by reiteration, the writer nevertheless strikes the same note of optimism for its future that has been heard in all official pronouncements on the question...