Word: writer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Rudolf Paul, Minister President of Thuringia; Theodor Plivier, longtime Communist writer, whose book called Stalingrad won him Soviet kudos; Jena's Mayor Heinrich Mertens; Mühlhausen's Mayor Heinrich Stuecker; Mine Director Hans Grassman, who had bossed four Soviet workings in Saxony, where 10,000 conscripted Germans were mining for uranium...
FREDERICK THE GREAT: THE RULER, THE WRITER, THE MAN (376 pp.) - G. P. Gooch-Knopf...
Poet Conrad Aiken gazed happily around him, decided that things were much better between the writer and the world than they used to be. The Pulitzer Prizewinner (1929) reported in the Saturday Review of Literature that "quite suddenly, it has become not only respectable to be a writer, but even honorable. . . . What we are witnessing is the beginning of a sort of love affair between the American public and its writers...
Lucky Forward is likely to please only those who want to make a legend of Patton. Essentially it is a rewrite of Headquarters section reports into a kind of headline-writer's jab-&-smash jargon. It is jerky, often ungrammatical, unblushingly awkward: "The enemy's vitals had been pierced. An Armored poniard was stabbed squarely in the middle of his rear and athwart his main line of communications. . . . The enemy was beset from every quarter in a welter of triphammer blows, chaos, death, and destruction. On the ground and in the air he was mauled and ravaged from...
...19th Century. Josiah Holland's Life, which appeared within a year of Lincoln's death plugged the theme that Lincoln was model youth and had made the grade through pure idealism. Its sale of more than 100,000 copies indicated to many royalty-conscious writer how the average reader liked his Lincoln served-only the palatable facts, well garnished with folklore and parsley...