Word: writer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Naturally Writer Sidney Sutherland was haled before his editors for questioning. He swore several jagged, journalistic oaths at men unaware of what they say during interviews; then explained what happened. His employers believed him. Then came a bright thought. His report would make a good story. He wrote...
Anna. Young love in the latin quarter is a theme both sweet and sacred for the writer of romantic plays. In this one Lou Tellegen is the Velvet Joe of sculptury and Judith Anderson is his pretty model who poses for him in the nude, who wagers that if he can marry a certain heiress she will give him her all, and who turns out, on the date of payment, to be herself none other than the rich and reckless lady...
...writer Julian Green shows unmistakable talent, as a psychologist he is convincing beyond question, but as a novelist he has yet to achieve something of universality. As in his first novel, Avarice House, not a single character has charm or kindness-nothing but selfishness, fear, jealousy. Adrienne is said to be beautiful, but her submissiveness, her exasperating inhibitions, make her so unattractive that it is difficult to be as sorry for her as one no doubt should...
ALTHOUGH Mr. Braybrooke finished his book before Hardy's death, its appearance is coincident with the renewed interest in the Wessex genius. It treats Hardy as a writer of prose and as a poet. From these two considerations, his doctrine is defined as a philosophy that is melancholy, even morbid in its inability to lead to anything that is tangible, or that gives an idea of the purpose of life...
Walter Lippmann, always an extremely lucid writer, turns on the Scopes trial and Mayor Bill Thompson's campaign against English propaganda a mind trained to observe and comment. His series of six brief essays turns both cases around and upside down, exhibiting to the reader far more facets than he would ordinarily have considered...