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Richard Watson Gilder
Richard Watson Gilder , 1844-1909, American editor and poet, b. Bordentown, N.J. In 1869 he became an editor of the magazine Hours at Home, which merged with Scribner's Monthly in 1870. Just before Scribner's became the Century, Gilder succeeded J. G. Holland as its editor (1881), a position... Read more |
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Samuel Irenaeus Prime
Samuel Irenaeus Prime 1812-85, American Presbyterian clergyman and editor, b. Ballston Spa, N.Y. After holding pastorates at Ballston Spa and Matteawan, N.Y., he became assistant editor (1840-49) of the New-York Observer and later editor (1851-85). In this religious periodical, which he helped to... Read more |
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Lewis Gaylord Clark
Lewis Gaylord Clark 1808?-1873, American editor and writer, b. near Syracuse, N.Y. He was the editor (1834-60) of the Knickerbocker Magazine and made it a leading literary publication of its day. He wrote Knickerbocker Sketch-Book (1845) and Knick-Knacks from an Editor's Table (1852). His... Read more |
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Harold Wallace Ross
Harold Wallace Ross 1892-1951, American editor, b. Aspen, Colo. He founded The New Yorker magazine in 1925 and was its influential managing editor until his death. Ross quit school at the age of 14 to work at the Salt Lake City Tribune. During World War I he edited Stars and Stripes in... Read more |
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Richard Hurd
Richard Hurd 1720-1808, English theologian, editor, and critic. From 1781 until his death he was bishop of Worcester. His best-known works are Moral and Political Dialogues (1757) and Letters on Chivalry and Romance (1762), an examination of knight-errantry and Gothic literature.... Read more |
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Petroleum V Nasby
Petroleum V. Nasby pseud. of David Ross Locke, 1833-88, American journalist and satirist, b. Vestal, N.Y. Locke was editor of the Findlay, Ohio, Jeffersonian when he first became prominent by publishing (1861) in it the Nasby letters. The writer, Petroleum Vesuvius Nasby, was ostensibly an... Read more |
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Edwin Lawrence Godkin
Edwin Lawrence Godkin , 1831-1902, American editor, b. Moyne, Ireland, of English parentage. His idealism found expression in his History of Hungary and the Magyars (1853) and won him the job of correspondent (1853-55) to the London Daily News during the Crimean War. In 1856 he came to the... Read more |
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Rufus Wilmot Griswold
Rufus Wilmot Griswold 1815-57, American editor, b. Benson, Vt. He was influential as editor of Graham's Magazine (1842-43) and the International Monthly Magazine (1850-52) and as anthologist of The Poets and Poetry of America (1842) and several similar books. He had known Edgar Allan Poe... Read more |
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Boston News‐Letter
...papers, so that the News‐Letter was sometimes a year behind...information. Bartholomew Green, the editor (1704–32), adopted a semi...to The Boston Weekly News‐Letter and New‐England Chronicle and...Gazette and Boston News‐Letter, making the journal the ... |
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Wolfe, Thomas (Clayton)
...disillusioned novelist and with his editor, who fatalistically accepts...1938 (1951); a collection of Letters (1956); Letters ...to His Mother (1968); and...men.Since his death various letters of his have been collected and... |
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epistolary novel
...a story written in the form of letters, or letters with journals, and usually presented...anonymous author masquerading as ‘editor’. The first notable example in...translation from the French in 1678, Letters of a Portugese Nun. In 1683... |
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Locke, David Ross
...V. Nasby. The first Nasby letter appeared in the Findlay Jeffersonian...1861), of which he was editor. “Petroleum Vesuvius Nasby...anticlimax. In 1865 he became editor of the Toledo Blade, and later...to it his immensely popular letters until his death. ... |
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Wilson, Edmund
...that made him a leading man of letters in various genres, best known...posts, including managing editor of Vanity Fair (1920–21...Correspondence is gathered in Letters on Literature and Politics (1977) and The Nabokov‐Wilson Letters (1979). The Sixties: ... |
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Howe, M(ark) A(ntony) Dewolfe
...1864–1960), New England editor, poet, and scholarly antiquary...People (1903); Life and Letters of George Bancroft (1908...from Four Centuries (1910); Letters of Charles Eliot Norton (1913...Fields; Barrett Wendell and His Letters (1924, Pulitzer Prize... |
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Alcott, Louisa May
...Civil War until her health failed: her letters of this period were published as Hospital...by Stern in 1987. In 1867 she became editor of a juvenile magazine, Merry's Museum. Little...publications of her writing include Selected Letters (1987) and Journals (1989). In late... |
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De Voto, Bernard (Augustine)
...Harper's (1935–55). As Literary Editor of the Mark Twain Estate he issued previously...as Mark Twain in Eruption (1940) and Letters from the Earth (1962). His...the name John August. A collection of Letters (1975) was edited by Wallace Stegner... |
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Eliot, George
...Westminster Review and became assistant editor in 1851. In this year she became a paying...various poems and short stories; her letters and journals were edited by Cross (3 vols, 1885); her complete letters were edited by G. S. Haight (9 vols... |
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Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded
...Pamela consists, like them, entirely of letters and journals, of which Richardson presents himself as the ‘editor’. He raised the epistolary form of...heroine, herself provides most of the letters and journals, with the ‘hero... |
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case-sensitive
...distinction between upper- and lower-case letters. In any situation where a computer...whether to treat upper- and lower-case letters the same or differently. In some cases, such as word processor or text editor input, case must be preserved, while... |
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reserve
...retain or hold (an entitlement to something), esp. by formal or legal stipulation: [tr.] the editor reserves the right to edit letters. ∎ refrain from delivering (a judgment or decision) immediately or without due consideration or evidence... |
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Acton, John Emerich Edward Dalberg
...Baron Acton (1834–1902), historian. In 1859 he became editor of the RC Rambler; under the threat of a Papal veto he suspended...with J. J. I. von Döllinger in publishing the series of letters under the signature ‘Quirinus’. From 1895 he was Regius... |
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Caillaux, Joseph
...a government with the Radicals, the editor of the right-wing newspaper Le Figaro published incriminating letters he had written to his wife before they...secrets, Caillaux's wife shot the editor in March 1914. It finished Caillaux... |
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Stein, Erwin
...Vienna, 1885; d London, 1958). Austrian-born conductor, editor, and critic (later Eng. cit.). Pupil of Schoenberg 1906...London 1938, joining Boosey and Hawkes. Ed. Schoenberg's letters. Associate and friend of Britten. Book of essays, Orpheus... |
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yellow
...Edmund Gosse, Arnold Bennett, and H. G. Wells. The art editor was Aubrey Beardsley. It was so named because of its distinctive...yellow flag a ship's yellow or quarantine flag (denoting the letter Q), indicating a request for customs clearance when flown... |
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Mahan, Alfred Thayer
...Influence book, a collection of his lecture notes. He resigned from the navy in 1895 to pursue his writing career full time. In all, Mahan published twenty-one books, as well as numerous magazine articles and letters to the editor. |
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please
...the meeting, it pleased him to go off hunting. • adv. used in polite requests or questions: please address letters to the Editor what type of fish is this, please? ∎ used to add urgency and emotion to a request: please, please come home... |
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censor
censor • noun the film censors synonyms: expurgator, bowdlerizer; examiner, inspector, editor. • verb letters home were censored synonyms: cut, delete parts of, make cuts in, blue-pencil; edit, expurgate, bowdlerize, sanitize; informal... |
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emend
emend • verb the editors select letters for publication and may emend content at their own discretionsynonyms: correct, rectify, repair, fix; improve, enhance... |
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Warning letters off 38% for first half of 2002: Terrorism, counsel review are...
...out 33% of the agency's letters in October but decreased...accounting for 28% of the warning letters in March. Letter output at CBER was not very significant (two letters in October, one in March...agency. Sincerely, The Editors |
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Letter from the editor
...writer of a letter to the editor was unhappy. His letter had been shortened. After...redundancies, the point of the letter was still clearly conveyed...threatened to call other letter writers to see if their letters have ... |
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Letter From Washington, D.C.
...unsuccessfully to give just such a letter to the staff of D.C...Storey, in an Oct. 29 letter in The Post, argued...I do not weep for the letter to the editor, or those annoying faux personal advertising letters, or those ... |
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Publishing a letter is long, fair process
...for refusing to run his letter to the editor. "You never run my letters," he said with increasing...I said. "In your October letter, you disagreed with most of...about our policy on publishing letters to the editor, but it ... |
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LETTERS TO EDITORS NOW COME VIA MANY ROUTES : One of the best read features...
...through here and writes a letter commenting on our parks when...print it, and if we get a letter on something that happened...relevant, we will publish the letter." Whatever rules editors lay down about letters, they are among the ... |
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...offers its visitors holiday letter templates and samples. Sample letters are ready to download in...employment, professional, cover letters, billing and collection, credit letter writing samples in addition...letter with the help of a text ... |
 "Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL)")
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Letters remove pane from window to town.(News)
...accountability. If we must edit letters, it is usually for space considerations...and taste. We don't allow letter writers to defame individuals...a phrase or even an entire letter. We disdain censorship, but...abject bigotry. Writers whose letters do not ... |
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Warning Letter
...may be more likely to get a warning letter the first time FDA spots a viola-tion...has bemoaned the number of untitled letters it may send to the same company for...said CDRH may just skip the untitled letter and go directly to a warning letter for a first ... |
 "The Spokesman-Review (Spokane, WA)")
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Letter policy changes offer wider input
...the form of letters to the editor. Public journalism only intensified...America City Award, recognizes letters to the editor as a measure...greater the space, the more letters we receive. Some letters would be unusable in ... |
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Selected Letters of Matthew Arnold.(Book review)
...44.50 cloth. In a letter of 15 September 1880 addressed...journal, but I tell my story in letters, which is the better and pleasanter way" (letter no. 187). The present editors' purpose is to present that...readers" (x) by selecting letters ... |
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