Word: manuscripts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...domesticated and tamed Richard a little," she wrote) he broke out less often but no less lustily. In his last years at Trieste, an old man by now. Burton one day routed Isabel's swanky afternoon circle of women by stalking into their midst, glowering, to display a manuscript titled A History of Farting...
...next effort, a translation of The Scented Garden, was to make "Mrs. Grundy howl." But the storm he foresaw over its publication broke instead over Isabel when horrified litterateurs, among them Burton's close crony Swinburne, learned that immediately after Burton's death she had destroyed the manuscript along with his diaries for 40 years...
Claiming that his great discovery in the British Museum was a manuscript, dated 2137, which revealed the evolution of a world democracy from the present time, Harold J. Laski, Professor of Political Science in the University of London, spoke to a large audience at the Ford Hall Forum last night...
...must register at the Class Day headquarters in Lehman Hall before Saturday, April 3. Each candidate will be asked to state any experience or qualifications he may have which bear on his ability to fill this position. He will be given an opportunity to submit with his registration any manuscript or copy of past work or proposed work that he may wish to have considered as evidence of his ability...
Director Capra went to work with typical Hollywood opulence. He bought the original manuscript, gave it to Scenarist Robert Riskin to rework, devised one of the most magnificent sets in cinema history. He had the good judgment to leave the story almost exactly as it was written and the skill to match Author Hilton's verbal talent with pictorial subtlety. After this week's opening, most critics held Lost Horizon as fine a cinema as it is a book. Its one flaw is Director Capra's one major deviation from the novel-a happy ending...