Word: writing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Author. John P. Marqu has followed the usual formula becoming a U. S. novelist. Graduated by Harvard in 1915, he tried jour ism with the Boston Transcript The New York Tribune. After a War career, he tried advertising. He found ''copy" easy to write but difficult take seriously, so he fled Manhattan, turned to writing novels...
...message from G. B. Shaw said: "As the amoeba does not understand birth control, it cannot abuse it and therefore its state may be the more gracious ; but it is also true that, as the amoeba cannot write, it cannot commit forgery; yet we teach everybody to write unhesitatingly, knowing that if we refuse to teach anything that could be abused, we should never teach anything...
Renewal memoranda enclosed. Was about to write you in any case. Herewith is an advertisement (by the Dictograph Products Corporation) clipped from TIME, issue of Feb. 23. I believe you believe in truth in advertising. Could anything be more contrary to actual facts than the import of the following quotations taken from the advertisement...
...only by crowding in extra chairs man extent which is not consistent with convenient use of the rooms, and in some instances is downright unsafe. In two lecture rooms it has been necessary to put in chairs with no bench or arm upon which to write. Obviously such a condition impairs the effectiveness of the teaching...
Hence they man behind the counter, watching the piles going slowly or fast knows a deal about the tastes of Harvard men. But he has yet to write to the editor about...