Word: writer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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What the beef meant was that Canada did not intend to send in a statement, get a polite "Thank you." Canada intended to have a voice in the peace settlements above the level of a mere memo-writer...
Favorable opinion was very evident amid the welter of impressions and suggestions obtained in writing from students taking the courses. Views often clashed, however, and in certain cases, what one writer complained of or praised, others did not even mention...
...four-line rhyme that has had a continuing vogue in England, named for its inventor, mystery writer E. C. (for Clerihew) Bentley (Trent's Last Case). Sample Clerihew by Miller...
...famous bronze in Washington's Rock Creek Cemetery, generally called Grief. Adams was buried next to his wife, at the foot of the statue. Characteristically, he was much annoyed when people asked what Saint-Gaudens' seated, hooded figure symbolized. "Every magazine writer wants to label it as some American patent medicine for popular consumption - Grief, Despair, Pear's Soap or Macy's Men's Suits Made to Measure. [It is] meant to ask a question, not to give an answer; and the man who answers will be damned to eternity like the men who answered...
...suspense and its Austrian atmosphere, Author Millar's story recalls Ethel Vance's best-selling novel Escape (TIME, Sept. 25, 1939). Not particularly profound, it is swift and very readable. As a novel it has a fault typical of most such efforts to recreate recent history: the writer has tried to include characters symbolic of everything, from France to the U.S. officer corps...