Word: scribbler
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Joseph Stalin had much to celebrate; he also had much to remember. When he was born, the son of a drunken Georgian shoemaker and his peasant wife, Queen Victoria was on the throne, Karl Marx was a penniless scribbler, and the world seemed to find it a good deal easier to tell the difference between right & wrong than it does today. Stalin built an empire of a kind that Victoria could not have visualized even in her nightmares; he forged Marx's foggy philosophy into an iron knife with which to carve the earth; and he swamped mankind with...
Your review of the cinema, The Lost Moment [TIME, Dec 8], based on the adumbrated novel by Henry James, the scribbler (to use the vulgar expression), is sufficient, I think, to suggest the ponderous prose, the-some personages might almost label-circum-locuted prose of Henry, the dear fusspot, James, but, may one reflect, and I do appreciate your unwonted forbearance, that the pages of TIME are not precisely the place-one may relievedly observe-where one expects to encounter . . . the ambiguous, attenuated, ' grayed verbiage, the niceties of the vaporous review mentioned somewhere above...
...first time. The U.S. had produced few better-known heroes-and almost none so artificially contrived. Cody was an Indian scout and buffalo hunter in his youth, but the rest of the "Buffalo Bill" legend sprang straight from the brain of a raffish scribbler known as Ned Buntline. Astounded by Cody's good looks, wonderful lies and infinite capacity for firewater, Buntline immortalized him in a series of hair-raising dime novels...
Editorialist Jennings Perry "is a sorry, unworthy, despicable character-a venal and licentious scribbler" whose "hifaluting way" of writing about Greek culture does not show "enough knowledge of Greek to qualify him to open a restaurant. . . . Just as one would expect of a wanderoo. He has the brains of a quagga...
Deems Taylor is not only a charming and witty talker, a keyman in four radio programs, a highly successful scribbler of books and of introductions to other people's books; he is a composer to boot. Last week Americans were pricked into awareness of that half-forgotten fact when the enterprising Philadelphia Opera Company (TIME, Feb. 9) put on the world premiere of the first new Deems Taylor opera in eleven years, Ramuntcho...