Word: writing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...this all. "People are too busy in these days to make love . . . to write billets-doux." And the automobile is of course to blame. The loss of these dainty confections of literature is truly tragic. Yet the squinting scholar may smile amidst the grime of a blowout to thank his otherwise cursed machine for preventing the literary effusions of future Pamelas...
...course the simplest answer here is that anything calculated for our good is more desirable in its presence than in its absence. Unfortunately, however, this does not answer the question. ... I like the story told of the young Polish girl in a New York school who was asked to write the dif- ference between an educated man and an intelligent man, and who summed it up thus: 'An educated man gets his thinks from someone else; an intelligent man works his own thinks...
Sophomores who are trying for positions as editors on the news board will gather and write up news in and around the College. Some of this news will be particular stories assigned by the assistant managing editor, some will be in the nature of "scoops" stories discovered by the candidate on his own initiative...
...will be a mean line in that racy American language he knows so well. . . . You can depend on one thing?the letters will be crammed full of speed, zip, pep and go! A guy who could write a song out of a flock of bugle calls and help win a war will write some letter?the kind that will make you shout...
Wrote Cohan: "At last I'm a man of letters, whatever that means. . . . You'll just die laughing at some of the things I'll say. . . . Write me; wire me; phone me 1 ... I love my little readers. If any college boy cares to call my attention to a misspelled word or two I will appreciate it beyond words. . . . Yours...