Word: writes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...famed quintuplets, called an unwonted press conference last week in the $60,000 house that his daughters' income built at Corbeil, Ont. "The quints did not come home for Christmas," Papa Dionne announced sadly. "We didn't even receive a card from them. They didn't write; they didn't phone. We have realized for some months that they have been drifting away ... we decided it would be better if we didn't try to camouflage things any longer...
...much doubt that many Americans will go right on complaining just as they were in 1845, when the Boston Grammar School Committee sadly reported that "a large proportion of the scholars in our first classes, boys and girls of 14 and 15 years of age, when called on to write simple sentences . . . cannot write, without such errors in grammar, in spelling, and in punctuation, as we should blush to see in a letter from a son or daughter of their...
...stroke that left her "crooked and shrunk up" and led to her death. Says Dr. Brain admiringly: "Dickens shows that he knows that loss of speech is associated with paralysis of the right side of the body and that in such cases there may also be agraphia [inability to write...
...Night Runners of Bengal and CoromandeU), he has a fair chance of carrying out his plan -particularly since he works on an electric typewriter, turning out first drafts at a clip of 11,000 words a day. But U.S.-naturalized Novelist Masters has paused in his fiction labors to write a memoir of his youth. Not surprisingly, it turns out to be about his service in India as an infantry officer in a Gurkha regiment...
...Plume. In Dayton, William H. Moone was brought to trial in a federal court on a forgery charge, accused by Plaintiff Lewis Wilson, who can neither read nor write, of signing his name on a Social Security check...