Word: written
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...done, H. Hamilton Fyfe, 57, the man who has written everything from dramatic criticism for the London Times (1901) to Russian propaganda in Spain (1917) and British propaganda in Germany (1918) is off again. To newsgatherers he said last week: "I believe that in 20 years there will be only two parties in England, one consisting of Laborites and Liberals and the other of Communists...
...Schacht, though accounted sage in German and Allied financial circles, has something of a penchant for starting ill considered libel suits. His most famous action of this sort was to bring suit for libel against a German music publisher who had attached jazz music to a callow poem indisputably written by Herr Schacht in his youth and sold by him at that time for a pittance to a German magazine from whom it was purchased by the music publisher...
...started to rise when he saw Mr. Thaw coming toward him, sank back into his chair with an expression of sudden weariness while a tide of slow vermilion spread like spilled wine across the bosom of his evening shirt. That was in June, 1906. Now Harry Thaw has written a book...
...nominee for Congress. Evidently, Congress is Mr. Wilton's idea of the ne plus ultra, for he decides to live forever after in accordance with that personality which was discovered in him through amnesia. The irony is unconscious; the play dull. Reports have it that Mr. Langner has written a better play, to be produced later in the season...
...Significance, People upon whom Barry Benefield laid strong hold last autumn with his little-heralded* novel, The Chicken-Wagon Family, will be glad for the introduction to this volume, written by that primate of short-story critics, Mr. Edward J. O'Brien. It is like hearing that your favorite choir soloist has been engaged by the Metropolitan Opera. Says Mr. O'Brien, who reads bales of fiction per annum in professional detachment: "I suppose that those who are dumb have never had their feelings and experience interpreted so clearly before as ... by Barry Benefield." He gives thanks that...