Word: directness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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George E. Massey, '11, graduate of George Pierce Baker's former 47 Workshop, will direct the Harvard Dramatic Club's play, which will be chosen within the next two days...
...work of women with the exception of Gertrude Stein. Tact and complacency have long been woman's attributes, and I think they prove a drawback to good reading. They do not write simply or violently enough for my taste. I should like my prose to be lucid, direct and lean." Other books: Plagued by the Nightingale; Year Before Last; Gentlemen, I Address You Privately...
...subsequent history of the article is instructive. Several of the Boston papers copied the story; and on November 13, a new version appeared in a well-known morning paper. The "rewrite" editor rephrased the erroneous conclusions in a more emphatic and specific form, and attributed them directly to me. In fact the entire text now conveys the impression of a direct personal interview; and I find it necessary to send out letters of explanation to all of our collaborators, in order to reduce the damage to my own reputation, and to the reputation of the University...
...Japan, whence he went direct from Turkey, Ambassador Grew has found it extremely convenient not to hear too fiery outbursts by supercharged Japanese patriots at formal dinners. His reports, always held up as models of freshness and exactitude in the State Department, have, however, been weighted as never before with strong advice that in dealing with the Far East it is now necessary that Washington take a firm
Many a broker feels that retrenchment, by eliminating a large amount of direct brokerage advertising, is one good reason for the decline in security trading. Yet the New York Stock Exchange gets more free publicity than any other business institution in the land. Every big newspaper in the land devotes pages to daily stock-.market news and quotations. But the Exchange also gets more space in the Congressional Record than any other business institution. Therefore last week its Governors came to an unprecedented decision: the Stock Exchange itself would drum up business...