Word: mss
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...This permits the number of words to a page to be doubled or to be halved. Having spent all my business life in close contact with authors, editors, literary agents, printers and printers' link, I told my guest that the universal practice in the literary shop is to measure MSS by the number of words and not by the sheet or page. I even proposed that he ask his instructors in this course to follow the common practice. He received my suggestion with manifest horror and told me he could not think of doing such a thing...
...reviewer of the New York Sun correctly pointed out that the spelling "liqueris" was wrong: it should have been "loqueris." It was, of course, a typographical error, as my Mss. had the "o." I corrected it in a later edition...
...recreating its soul. A sign of the times, this latest study of Poet-Painter Dante Gabriel Rossetti and his earnest men is a credit not only to its authoress' heart but to her scholarship and her mind. Poor Splendid Wings got the pre-eminence over 800 other mss., won for Authoress Winwar the Atlantic Monthly-Little, Brown $5,000 non-fiction prize...
Naturally if I didn't think my melodic line was stronger, "better," had more guts than the general ruck of music I wd. have burnt the mss. instead of instigating its performance...