Word: writer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Stanley Reed, Kentucky-born, onetime Solicitor General, once a practical dirt fanner, writer of pedestrian opinions, rated as an able lawyer...
Robert Houghwout Jackson, onetime Attorney General, collector of McGuffey's Readers, ardent horseman, an eloquent, incisive writer who, when he dissents, dissents in vitriol; considered by corporation lawyers to be the most consistent of the justices...
Were such distractions our constant lot, however, sportswriting would soon lost its calling. The positive benefits of the trade center around the fact that the writer can enjoy all the excitement of athletics, avoiding at the same time all of the unpleasantness (i.e. the physical effort). This is a very tempting set-up, especially on cold November afternoons, when, clip-board in hand, the writer ascends to the relative warmth and comfort of the Soldier's Field press-box, whence he can gaze down in fine scorn on players and spectators alike...
...years, Emma Shipman has served her church obscurely but well, as a Christian Science practitioner and teacher, a member of many committees and a writer of many articles for Christian Science periodicals. In her spare time she is an avid gardener and a member of the Audubon Society. This week, the Mother Church elected Emma Shipman president for the coming year...
...readers are always delighted when they find a writer who really acts and talks like one. When Parnassus on Wheels, a quaint little novel about an itinerant bookseller, was published back in 1917, many readers decided that they had found their man. Christopher Morley was clever with a whimsical plot and wrote in the studied, slightly archaic style of another century. The tweedy, pipe-smoke flavor of his looks and books reminded many of the country-squire tradition among English men of letters. With each succeeding Morley work, readers who had cut their teeth on J. M. Barrie...