Sentence:  Forty years ago an English <WSD>writer</WSD> , W. L. George , dealt with this subject in Eddies of the Day , and said , as an example , that ' Saint George for Merry England ' would not start a spirit half so quickly as ' Strike frog eating Frenchmen dead '' ' ! 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  writes (books or stories or articles or the like) professionally (for pay)