Word: writing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Wherever the name of popular writing is given, Mr. Wright stands as a symbol. From what some folk write of him, you would see him as a violent newspaper man sitting at his typewriter, spinning out stories to catch the popular mind and fill his own pocketbook. Long before one meets him, one is sure that he is nothing of the sort. Reading his novels is enough to convince any thinking person of his sincerity. Then, too, how could a man born in Rome, N.Y., who has been both landscape-gardener and preacher, be totally lacking in sincerity...
...court then meets in private and discusses the case; each Justice, beginning with the senior, gives his opinion in turn. If agreement is reached, the Chief Justice appoints one of the Justices to write the decision of the court; if agreement is not reached, one or more Justices may express their dissent in a dissenting opinion or in several such...
...only a year ago, after the death of a little daughter, that people began to understand the mystic whose "life is hid with Christ in God." Sorrow drove him to write out the heart of his religion in a book of devotion: "Deep calleth unto deep at the noise of thy waterspouts. Hope thou...
...fashions," announced the Fairchild Fashions Publications, last week, "have emerged from the domain of humor." They have, indeed, entered the domain of sport. Every year to Palm Beach go individuals who stare at neckties, note the shape of bathing suits, write home about the length of knickers, the color of hosiery. They are the "beachcombers" of toggery...
...Annesley Vachell-Stokes ($2.00). Mr. Vachell says he owes the idea of this book to a friend, one "Dum-Dum." In making his suggestion, "DumDum" may well have said: "Believe it or not, you, with your swift Sat.-Eve.-Post style, your clean humor, your knack with characters, could write a good tale about the department-store business. Draw a composite hero-a Marshall Wannamacy. Have him crash his way up from running errands for a scrimping haberdasher to running the business of his own sterling Emporium. Make Wannamacy-or William Watling- quaint as well as Rotarian, eccentric as well...