Word: writing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...virile sentiment." So announced Professor Pietro Fedele, Italian Minister of Education, who last fortnight weeded out many a college professor and high school teacher possessed of un-Fascist sentiments. Elucidation: "Observation has demonstrated that women lack enthusiasm for philosophy, which they always seek to tincture with religion. They cannot write, and history they subject to sympathies or antipathies." In future women will teach Rico, Tito and Beppo only sciences, languages, and philological subjects...
...also been said that one who is absolutely ignorant of a subject is best fitted to write about that subject. According to this, we are supremely qualified to write about mid-years. But we have to show...
...hastened to assure us, noting with compassion our blanched cheek and trembling cigarette, "I mean write a Crime Column...
...real family name was Davies. His father, who could neither read nor write, signed X (his mark) on his citizenship papers; the registration clerk entered Davis. Davis has stuck...
...plan to write an opera, now or in the future?' . . ." He got his answer: "NO, I do not intend to ever write an opera-to sing them is enough for me . . . NOT EVER!" And he had the wit to use his own difficulty as padding for an otherwise slim interview. He cunningly hit upon "Our Mary's" infinitive-splitter, the adverb "ever," as the key word for his story. And something almost unprecedented took place. A cub reporter on a large metropolitan daily not only got his first effort into print, but the city editor...