Word: writer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...just where your writer digs up this deluded data? The poor misguided jerk must either not have been around at all, or he went around once too often. We at Wilson High, Long Beach, pride ourselves on our high percentage of wheels, but we most certainly have no such idiosyncrasies as your article describes...
...poor Scottish family who worked his way through Glasgow University, Orr started as a theological student but got interested in the new dogma of Darwinism instead. Soon Orr became convinced that food or the lack of it was the reason for most human ills. "He began," one writer said, "tracking down scientific clues like a detective on the trail of a mass murderer." In World War II an Orr survey provided the basis for British food rationing. He never stopped lecturing people on eating the right kind of food; once he complained that he could get farmers interested in feeding...
...years of Superman's astounding antics, McClure Newspaper Syndicate and National Comics Publications thought that readers might be getting bored with their comic-strip hero's invulnerability. Last week the syndicators decided to put Superman in a position where he may lose an occasional round. In November, Writer Whit Ellsworth and Artist Wayne Boring will marry him off to his longtime sweetheart, Lois Lane. In the normal course of time ("even Superman can't hurry some things") Lois will present him with a Superbaby. The new challenge: "Can Superman cope with modern man's most intimate...
Domestic Manners of the Americans sold so well both at home and abroad that it established Frances Trollope as a professional writer (she wrote more than 20 novels and books of travels in the remaining 30 years of her life) and helped to recoup for herself and her five children (of whom Anthony Trollope was to become a far more famous author than his mother) the money lost in "Trollope's Folly." Her new readers of 1949 are likely to laugh, both at Britain's Trollope and Jackson's America. Like Mark Twain, they may even decide...
...Chekhov chose to call this play a comedy, and we must accept his word for that, even though the tragic fate of the two young lovers does not comply with the conventional comedy ending. Perhaps the comic element in "The Sea Gull" lies in the irony of the young writer's rejection by his mother, his sweetheart, and his public; all three of whom take to their hearts an older writer the young regards as a hack. "The world is a comedy to those who think, a tragedy to these who feel," is Herace Walpole's useful reminder...