Word: manuscripts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Handwriting. Newspapers last week printed the last words of Paul Redfern, lost flyer to Brazil. In scratchy manuscript, dropped to the deck of the steamer Christian Krogh, the facsimile read: "Point ship to nearest land, wave flag or handkerchief once for each 100 miles. Thanks, Redfern...
Within are stories about Coolidge, Carnegie, John Singer Sargent, Roosevelt, Mrs. Ogden Reid; a facsimile manuscript of Kipling's "If"; snatches from famous biographies; answers to questions about how to get a job and succeed in it by Ford, Joseph C. Grew, Ethel Barrymore...
...Digger H. H. Von der Osten of the University of Chicago returned last autumn from the Hittite cities of Asia Minor with a manuscript which seemed to show that Queen Ankh-nes-Amen, after King Tut's death, wrote and asked a Hittite king if he had a marriageable son. tDr. Breasted is said to have read and translated every old Egyptian inscription ever discovered...
Platitudinous, innocuous as may be most commencement speeches Vice President Dawes observed not the bromidic tradition. Mounting a platform fringed with potted plants, he put his manuscript on a pedestal before him, gripped the pedestal with both hands, read. Soon those members of his audience who may have been acquainted with developments concerning the appointment of U. S. delegates to the Geneva Conference, sat straight up, leaned forward or otherwise shifted their persons to positions indicating close attention...
Among the more striking bindings shown is one of an old manuscript, in which is an ivory has relief surrounded with a heavy studding of jewels...