Word: assertation
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Barry charges are puzzling. I was present at a dinner party once where Mr. Irvin S. Cobb ventured to assert that he could write a successful novel in the Harold Bell Wright manner. I heard Mr. Cobb admit later that he had been unable to bring off a single chapter. He found that he could not make his characters talk or deport themselves in the stilted style of the Wright heroes and heroines...
...astounded. . . . The Beck threat is even more shortsighted and more inopportune than the application of the railroads for this increase. . . . The audacity of his suggestion that the I. C. C. should saddle additional millions of dollars upon the shippers without any study! . . . Where the railroads assert a loss of $400,000,000 in annual income, agriculture took a loss...
...good words are all for heathendom. But he regards heathen nature (especially female) with a civilized and curious eye, makes much of natural facts not usually dwelt upon so lovingly. Publishers Cape & Smith will not divulge Author "Baptist's" real name but they admit he is English, assert he is "very famous...
...organic simplicity which Wright regards as requisite to characteristic modernism. "Simplicity and style both are consequences, never causes," he advises us. That it may be true to its expression of the modern spirit our architecture must abandon its faking of old modes, recognize the new methods, and confidently assert its own materials and potentialities...
...pride, no regard for the fair name of the city, labored and brought forth a shower of hydrogen gas,* offensive alike to decent Republicans as well as Democrats and independents. As for my private life, I will match it against all the Pharisaical composers of that tirade. . . . The papers assert that the chairman of the committee is named 'A. Fox.' This is evidently a mistake. There must have been some confusion in the Republican zoo. It should have been signed by the name of another animal...