Word: well
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sirs: I think I see what you are trying to do- make a picture of the big news of the week like the London Illustrated News does. I think you've done not badly, in fact very well on the two occasions of the Supreme Court and the ZRS-4 Ring-Laying. But why not rely, as does the Illustrated News, on the camera? The day of the spot news sketcher has passed I'm sure...
...enter politics in Polk County. Married, four times a father, he served a fortnight as a captain in the Army Air Service during the War. He was appointed Minnesota's acting Attorney-General in February 1928, was elected to the office last November. A tax expert as well as a Prohibition enforcement officer, Mr. Youngquist has appeared often and well before the U. S. Supreme Court...
Senator George William Norris, grey and cadaverous, was on his feet at his Senate desk. The chamber, emptied by an hour-long tariff speech by Senator Broussard of Louisiana, began filling up. In his rear-row seat Senator Hiram Bingham of Connecticut kept shifting his long legs nervously. His well-cut white head was bent forward; his eyes strayed toward Senator Norris, dropped, scanned the chamber. Senator Jones of Washington glanced up from the workaday stack of books and papers on his desk. Senator Johnson of California in the front row swung his red chair halfway round to watch...
...development of the story. Of the actual writing, the reader should be always unconscious. The English language should not be slaughtered to such a degree that it becomes irritating, nor should the style be toned up to such a degree that it becomes noticeable. It is all very well to develop a background that will help the whole atmosphere of the tale, but it is a mistake to make the background too prominent. It has the same effect of the announcement interrupting a radio program to advertise whosis' blue-white diamonds. S. S. Vine Dine makes his hero, Philo Vance...
Football is not the simple sport that it used to be. An intersectional game today involves special trains, hide-outs for pre-game rest, newspaper reporters and front page publicity. A too well traveled team smacks highly of advertising and of gate receipts. But like all good things, there is safety in moderation. The fanfare and beating of drums in Ann Arbor today reflects the spirit-of youth; out for the conquest of football foes and the winning of new friends...