Word: writer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...have lived long because I could laugh at anything," Chauncey Depew used to say. Arthur Brisbane, Hearst writer, who usually has a pat last word to say on any subject, observed that Napoleon, who seldom laughed, did not live 93 years but that "he did live more in one day than amiable Mr. Depew in all his 94 years...
Gdal Saleski is himself a cellist, now with the New York Symphony. Press notices quoted in his own biography name him an artist of "graceful style which he is able to suit to many different moods." Writer Saleski can make no such claim. His sketches are cut and dried, peppered sparsely with long-familiar anecdotes. His enthusiasm for every Jew has robbed him of his discrimination, defeated his own humble purpose of segregating them. Superlatives are plentiful as periods. Elman, for instance, "alone can produce that broad, wholesome, spiritual tone which is characteristic of his playing and is so representative...
Walter Lippman, chief editorial writer of the New York World, delivered a lecture at the University of Virginia. Said he: "I believe that the body of educators has hardly realized the power it could exercise if it chose not to endure this perpetual bullying by ignoramuses. The teachers will be slaves if they act like slaves. Weakness always tempts the bully. If they cower they will be bullied. The tragedy and absurdity of the thing is that they could so easily rally a following if they had the imagination to realize how strong they are. If they chose...
Married. Adela Rogers St. John, author (Free Soul, Skyrocket) and scenario writer, of Santa Barbara, Calif.; to Richard ("Dick") Hyland, famed Stanford University football player...
...Author is 44 years old, the son of an English vicar, the brother of John Cowper Powys, author and lecturer and T. F. Powys, novel-writer, a graduate of Cambridge. In 1909, afflicted with tuberculosis, he went to a Swiss sanatorium, an experience about which he later wrote a book. In 1914, still diseased, he went to South Africa for five years: this visit supplied the material for Ebony & Ivory, Black Laughter. In 1920, he came to the U. S. without fame, wealth or a wife; in 1925, he left the U. S. with all three and lived in England...