Word: written
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...others, was inevitably followed by tragedy when some untoward incident broke her spell and the convert, be it lover or friend or fellow employee, backslid. It is in the retailing of these experiences that Mrs. Woodward can lay a claim to the attention of people generally. Her book is written with a certain ardor which seems to go always with some carelessness of phrase and structure. Her training moreover, having been that of a copywriter, leads to some boldness of diction. Yet here poignant portrayals are well worth the leisure of a sympathetic mind
...down again to two cents. It made gestures appropriate to show that it was in no way cheapening itself. It adopted a policy, new for the World, of advertising itself with full pages in other newspapers. It put its best foot far forward, extolling what is unquestionably "the best written feature page in American journalism," the World's famed "opp.ed." (opposite editorial) page, where Franklin Pierce Adams like a bandar-log and Heywood Broun like St. Simeon Stylites ruminate at the foot and the head, respectively, of their columns; where are also plump Drama Critic Alexander Woollcott, Book Critic Harry...
...that was it. William Randolph Hearst, owner of International News Service, had sponsored one of the most "unethical", newspaper stories in his long career. He, of course, had not written it himself, but it was perfectly in accord with his tradition, and in direct conflict with newspaper ethics. "Get a lead! Go as far as you dare! Pep! Snap!" Well-paid Hearstlings and editors are promptly ousted if they...
Junk. Guffaws, not intended by the author, greeted this confection; Playwright Edwin Self is advertising manager for the Dayton Rubber Manufacturing Co., Dayton, Ohio. All praise to Dayton had he written a play, but has he? Junkman Ernest John (corpulent Sydney Greenstreet) has informal chats with God; radiates sunshine; feels led to rob a bank to help an aged invalid lady; with approval of the author does so. Old Sal (Emma Dunn) after rampaging all she can to offset the drivel, climaxes with a nerve-wrecking unexpected shriek?as Ernest John, in a large chair, slowly dies...
...show people how they look. The balloon tires of burlesque protect anyone it runs over from being injured. Mme. Momoro is the chauffeuse, adroit aloof, intelligent, guiding the satire until it is time for her to step out of it a human being like the rest. Mr. Tarkington has written books of more uniform merit but never one with more admirable and colorful combinations of his prime characteristic, good humor, with his serious aim, social enlightenment...