Word: jotted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Last spring trustees of Roxbury (Mass.) Latin School were on the hunt for a new headmaster. They decided to inspect Alumnus James Bryant Conant, invited him out for a speech. Professor Conant went, spoke. Roxbury trustees looked, listened, decided that Professor Conant, reserved, stiff-bodied, boyish-looking, with no jot of showmanship, no trace of "Harvard accent," definitely would not do. Few weeks later Professor Conant was elected president of Harvard...
...trading post, was a rough, brawling, drunken community of about 5,000 Indians, French-Canadians and half-breeds spending the proceeds of their winter fur catches. Only doctor within a 300-mi. radius was William Beaumont, an Army surgeon who meticulously recorded in a diary every medical tittle and jot he performed. For June 6, 1822, the entry, now a precious incunabulum in the history of U. S. Medicine, reads...
...well had he mentally planned Hay Fever that he wrote it during a house-party weekend. Private Lives was the product of a week's flu-confinement in a Hong Kong hotel. The record is sagging. It took months of voyaging in South American waters for him to jot down Design For Living...
Most authors keep notebooks. In them they jot down Ideas for future reference: the ideas are not necessarily their own, and no law says that they have to be. Many a note-jotting author collects phrases, verses and poems that strike his fancy. Usually not until Fame or Death has overtaken them do artists exhibit their sketchbooks or writers their notes. Aldous Huxley, reasonably far from Death, is not so far from Fame. On the strength of his previous work many a Huxley reader will buy this notebook ("an anthology with commentaries"), will find the comment keen, the choice...
...could enter judgment for the full amount of the original note less the sum already paid. He scored the receivership proceedings as "collusive, sham, fictitious, in bad faith and of ulterior motive." No sooner had fixer Blumenthal taken to the warpath last week than he was sued JOT: $4,485, allegedly due as profits on a $5,000 investment in his show Girl Crazy. Suer was a Philadelphia firm headed by Mr. Blumenthal's friend Albert Monroe Greenfield, shrewrd banker-promoter. Promoter Greenfield, too, once fixed for William Fox. He it was who negotiated the sale of Fox holdings...