Word: writer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Thomas, his red neck swelling, ordered the witness from the microphone. The committee then noted evidence of Communist allegiance (including photostats identified as their Communist Party membership cards) ; started the contempt proceedings rolling through the full committee to Speaker Joe Martin. By the third day they had cited eight: Writers John Howard Lawson, Alvah Bessie, Albert Maltz, Dalton Trumbo, Samuel Ornitz, Director Edward Dmytryk, Producer Adrian Scott, Writer-Director Herbert Biberman...
...Illiterates Are Legion." In the Social Democratic Rebirth Weekly, Writer Tu Jen feared that his countrymen lacked political intelligence: "When I look closely into realities, I feel that the forthcoming elections are but a beautiful dream. . . . Illiterates are legion. . . . Those who understand what democratic government is are indeed very...
Said one editorial writer in 1926, "Open hostility glowed warmly on both sides... Undergraduates and older men alike girded their loins for battle. . . Old friendships were cast aside and tradition forgotten. . . The result could be but one, and that the obvious...
...English novel seems to be a race between about six characters to see who is most sensitive, while the American novel is a race to see who can get drunk fastest," he observed with a broad smile. He added that the American writer "is hampered by an over-abundance of material," and can do little but describe his environment...
...colonel was a radio writer in 1930 when he and Budd Hulick, a studio announcer at Buffalo's WGR, were suddenly called on to ad-lib a desperate 15 minutes of silliness on the air. Before the show was over, the studio switchboard was jammed with calls from entranced listeners, and Stoopnagle & Budd were a top team in radio for the next eight years. In 1938 the partners went their separate ways,* and the vogue for Stoop's simpleton style of comedy vanished...