Word: writer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...creative writer; you have a journalistic flair; he is a prosperous hack. ¶ I am beautiful; you have quite good features; she isn't bad-looking, if you like that type...
...Johnson is "Uncle Bumps," a writer of stories for children who loathes the little pests as wholeheartedly as he likes .liquor and girls. June Allyson, a somewhat prim (but non-bespectacled) Vermont schoolteacher, wins a contest to illustrate his forthcoming book, The Bashful Bull. When she meets Uncle Bumps, whom she has always idolized, he gets her drunk-a state which Miss Allyson communicates with more charm and taste than most movie stars of either sex. When she sobers, she is outraged. It is necessary to pretend that the genius is driven to drink by a delinquent son (Butch Jenkins...
Margery Sharp has a sharp eye. But it takes more than that to be a really good writer. In her slight, pleasant novels (The Nutmeg Tree, Cluny Brown) she has neatly observed the small, telling details of social manners that weightier novelists often pass by. Her special gift is sketching, snippily but without too much malice, the idiosyncratic types that seem still to populate the English countryside as in the days of Jane Austen. (This gift has paid off well; three of her novels have been chosen as monthly selections by the Book-of-the-Month Club...
...that he must return to his estranged wife. ¶ Fan French, an idle Westchester matron, is thrilled to realize that she had been accosted by the murderer before the crime. The upshot for her: unsatisfactory adultery with a radio announcer. ¶A young, mentally unbalanced, would-be writer is stimulated by the newspaper stories to desire to duplicate the crime. ¶ A little Manhattan girl, her imagination fired, falsely accuses an innocent tailor of molesting...
...significant comment on Lovett's many important chores. For 16 years he lived at Jane Addams' famed Hull House in Chicago, but his recollections are those of a friendly, casual onlooker instead of the devoted worker he was. He aided all sorts of liberal causes as writer, speaker and organizer, usually with more energy and enthusiasm than his petition-signing, hat-passing colleagues, but this account of his impulsive championship of the underdog reads like a genial assurance that he couldn't say no in a good cause...