Word: manuscript
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...result of the whole affair seemed to be just a lot more whacking good publicity for The Cradle of the Deep and for Simon & Schuster as whopper-publishers, to whom any budding whopperist would do well to take his (her) manuscript...
Leaving the question of the authenticity of the Lincoln manuscript entirely out of consideration for the moment, the analysis goes into the fundamental characteristics exhibiting a remarkable likeness in each of the documents published in the Atlantic. The striking hypothesis completely undermines the already precarious position in which the alleged historical documents have been placed by prominent Western authorities among whom are Paul W. Angle, and Logan Hay of the Lincoln Centennial Association, Oliver R. Barrett of Chicago, Louis A. Warren, director of the Illinois Lincoln Foundation and N. Worthington C. Ford Hon. '07, secretary of the Massachusetts Historical Society...
...Coolidge article was not written on a train between Washington and the Bok bird sanctuary in Florida which the President pilgrimaged to dedicate (TIME, Feb. 11). The train saw the birth of instalments three and four. The first instalments were written earlier, in Washington. When Editor Long received the manuscript from the hands of President Coolidge at the White House and went into the Cabinet room to read it, he was clutching at something for which he had asked and begged and bid ever since Calvin Coolidge said "I do not choose...
...North Arlington, N. J., Author Bryan Hamilton Connolly, aged 14, pondered. The manuscript of his unfinished novel, The Marble Coffin, lay before him, and he had just written: "Your kids are being held for $500,000 ransom. Beginning tomorrow we will cut an ear off each one every day until the money is sent to us. When the ears are gone we will cut off their toes one by one." It was an effective piece of writing, but how would normal parents react to such a letter? Author Connolly, recalling the existence of his nine-year-old brother...
...this point President Hoover, reading from manuscript, inadvertently skipped part of his text. The omission: "In the meantime it is essential that a large part of the enforcement activities be transferred from the Treasury Department to the Department of Justice...