Word: sayed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ones publicly roasted in the correspondence column making that like yours an amusing feature. Result the paper grew out of its native earth and some fine story writers and poets uncovered. Condensation was the main need. Editor Archibald used to say to us scribes: "If you have an idea for a story see if you can boil it down to ten-line par [paragraph] and then to a one-line epigram." As he paid only on space it was Spartan ruling. The best sonnets ever written by Aussies-Bayldons on Marlowe and O'Downds "Last sea-thing dredged...
...favorably impressed with your literary style of condensing. My criticism is intended to be friendly and constructive when I say . . . you do not boil down enough...
...colony at Paris. There must, naturally, be a number of ladies thereabouts, who, for a consideration, will secure for traveling families of U. S. babbitts an entrée of sorts in Paris. Whether Miss Maxwell actually frowns upon this practice would be hard to say. Her entrée, at least, is still tolerably smart. She is just the woman, decided the Blancs, the Radziwills, the Bonapartes, to freshen up "Monte," to get the right people going there again. Despatches told last week that Miss Maxwell is now in Monte Carlo, at a salary of $50,000 per year...
Campbell Stephen, M. P. (Laborite) : "Do you say that the British Mission at Moscow employed no spies...
...follows: "I was born and always will be, a 'people's' artist. I sing for everyone. Politics, I understand nothing, absolutely. I never was what you call capitalist. I earn all my money; and everything I had in Russia was taken. "But Soviet Artists say now I give money to some White Guard people who are against Soviet. That isn't true. The story, it was simple-money I give to poor children in Vienna who belong to those outside of work. They starve. I have mooch money. I give them some...