Word: essayist
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Contrary to a widely spread rumor, Stephen Leacock, McGill professor of Economics and noted humorous essayist, will not come to Harvard as a roving professor under the Tercentenary Fund...
Christopher Morley, well known essayist and novelist, waxed a bit sarcastic in the latest number of the Saturday Review in describing the effect of the new Yale College buildings, "where architects have gone whoopsdearie in Gothic. The new Yale needs a lot of walking on to give it character. ...The effect, however, is not as depressing as that endless acreage of synthetic Georgian at Harvard...
...from San Francisco to New York, Baron Henri de Rothschild, practicing physician, essayist, playwright, perfumer, big game hunter, winemaker but no banker (TIME, May 20), was asked by Chicago newshawks about international finance, the position of the franc. Shrugged Dr. de Rothschild: "It's too early in the morning to talk about world finance...
Died, Sarah Haardt Mencken, 37, essayist, novelist (The Making of a Lady), wife of famed Baltimore Critic H. L. Mencken; after long illness; in Baltimore...
...horses, British women. Last week in San Francisco docked Baron Henri de Rothschild who is neither a spectacle like his cousins nor a banker like his ancestors. Most justly famed of living Rothschilds, he is a practicing physician who researched cancer and founded free milk stations in Paris, an essayist and playwright, a patron of the arts who built a $2,000,000 theatre in Paris, a perfumer, big-game hunter, winemaker. At the San Francisco pier to meet him on the return half of a round-the-world trip were his auto-racing Son Phillippe and his daughter...