Word: texts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...rights to Miss Ferber's book, he bought also the rights to the musical comedy that Florenz Ziegfeld had made out of it. Somehow the stretched narrative had to be delayed long enough to make it vocal. The best singing is done in a prolog, related to the text only by its tunes, in which Helen Morgan, whose voice is later apparently heard issuing from the lips of Laura La Plante, sings "My Bill" and "I Can't Help Lovin' That Man." Of the progress of the showboat, Cotton Palace, down the river, Director Harry Pollard...
...original "Guide" was prepared during the summer of 1898 by Professor B. S. Hurlbut '87, then Recording Secretary of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. The present edition is the first revision in 12 years, and necessarily the text has been re-written and changed in a great number of places...
...told a TIME writer that even Printer Cuneo could have cut this copy into "takes"* that intelligent compositors could not have recognized as Coolidge biography, the story teller, in my judgment, was trying to put something over- and not very cleverly. For there is little if any of the text that is not familiar to cover-to-cover TIME readers. Which leads me to suspect that either Editor Long or one of his boys wrote the copy of this "great mystery" captioned "On Entering and Leaving the Presidency" and, like so many "autobiographies" appearing in the popular magazines, that...
...White House carried on the same system, roughly, through the appointment of F. Stuart Crawford as research secretary. This post, however, went under a cloud when it was found that the Coolidge addresses, when dealing with geography and other indis- putable facts, followed with a striking literalness the text of the International Encyclopaedia. Besides, Mr. Coolidge had a certain vanity about his literary style which he considered inimitable. Lobby gossip went out through Good Friend Frank Waterman Stearns or Private Secretary Edward Clarke not through Mr. Crawford...
...satisfy the requirement of a reading knowledge of one language. This is in line with the evolution from the strict rules of a number of years ago when it was necessary for under-graduates to appear before an examiner and be questioned individually by reading passages of a language text-book and answering questions on them...