Word: writing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Austrian artists have already entered the coal mines to make a living. The others, working in heatless studios, live chiefly on rice. Thomas E. Kirby, for 40 years leading figure in the art auction business in the United States, is retiring as head of the American Art Association to write his memoirs. [About $60,000,000 worth of art works have passed beneath his hammer since he came to New York in 1883.] "New York," Mr. Kirby says, "is now the art center of the world." Possibly inspired by Edward of Wales, an American buyer paid...
...Louis Seibold, political expert of national reputation, has engaged to write a series of 25 articles for The New York Herald dealing with political, economic and general conditions throughout the country. The articles are appearing in The Herald on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays...
...write verse together...
...development merely by an examination of the important events of its history, of its constitutional development or of its foreign policy. One must also know what the people of that period thought, what they talked about, with what problems their intellects were busy. One could, it is true, write an extremely valuable and accurate history of Boston compiled wholly from the archives in City Hall. This would be an important work and of considerable use to students and scholars, but it might very well lead future readers to form a very erroneous opinion of the inhabitants of Boston...
...Church of Christ; the others, those who have remained within, united to the heirs of the apostles, do not need my words." He declares his absolute acceptance of all four gospels as authentic and of equal value, despising the words and theology of the higher criticism. He wishes to write of the Christ whom he sees in the gospels, without let or hindrance. His style is somewhat wordy, but of unsurpassed brilliance in some parts, as, for example, where he describes the utter lowliness of the manger. Another characteristic of the book is its succession of keen historical settings...