Word: writer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...English explorer who takes her rapidly away to India. Here Takla is not a success. Her social value becomes so low that the sister of the explorer, hearing that he intends to marry his discovery, has her kidnapped by an immoral blackman. Only the extraordinary resourcefulness of the scenario writer makes it possible for Takla to evade both the unpleasant death being prepared for her in the lama monastery and the imminent misconduct of her kidnapper. A glad conclusion becomes, thus, inevitable and the picture stops. Famed Gilda Gray, whose name has always been a synonym for that improper motion...
Sirs: More than 50 years ago Charles A. Dana had a writer on the Sun (was his name Cummings?) who was known as the great American condenser. Think TIME has several of them. When Grant was President there was much talk of corruption in Washington. Bclknap and Dent his brother-in-law were the chief ones to blame. The President said "Let no guilty man escape." Wouldn't it be fine if pur President would choose to say as much, instead of entertaining at breakfast such men as -, - and big -*? Oh, for Roosevelt at such a time! JAMES...
...student writer's share will be computed weekly and will be divided equally among the five or six contributors whose works are published in that week's service. Each month a statement will be rendered to the contributors, showing the number of papers sold and the amount received for them...
...writer must confess to a certain prejudice in favor of this issue of the Lampoon due to the fact that careful perusal of its pages has failed to discover any reference to indifferent horsemanship. This violent departure from the iron tradition of American humor speaks volumes for the originality of the paper...
...attempting his major task of providing Christmas amusement for us, the editor has rightly refrained from oversubtlety. It may seem to some that he might have allowed himself just a shade more licence in this respect. But the writer at least will not quarrel with him. With admirable good nature he has attempted to be all things to all men. The Puritan is given, in the ballad of Sir Brazen-pants, a story with a moral; the classical scholar cannot fall to derive satisfaction from the Christmas Version of "Times Danaos": while all must be stimulated by an entirely...