Word: writing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...actual examination Monday was divided into three parts, ostensibly allowing one-third of an hour for each division. The second question required an essay on the July Monarchy, in other words, the history of France from 1830 to 1848, giving the men 20 minutes to write on a question covering one fourth of the time treated in the first half year...
...have received a copy of the November 18th issue of TIME. In reading your publication I observed the article about Nebraska and I write to express my appreciation of the kind and generous manner in which you have used the name of my sainted brother W. J. While I do not feel that I am worthy of having my name mentioned with his in the connection that it is used, yet I want you to know of my appreciation of the honor you do me both in associating my name with his and in mentioning my name as a prominent...
Unser Anton von Galgotzy hated to write. When he was Austria's Quartermaster-General a Colonel sent him a fourpage document, in triplicate, filled with reasons why he should be supplied with a clock for his barrack square. Unser Anton's reply: "No Money?No Clock...
...broken up into iambic lines, he was doing what the producers of this cinema have done in their turn. They have created no pedantic replica of Elizabethan comedy, but a vivid, hilarious farce. They have paid Shakespeare the double compliment of using hardly a word that he did not write and of brightening his meaning with new pieces of pantomime that are exactly Elizabethan because they are slapstick. They have translated into exquisite physical imagery the Padua which Shakespeare could not manage on the bare boards of his stage. The Taming of the Shrew is Douglas Fairbanks' first all-talking...
Poet Jeffers lives in a rocky tower on the edge of the continent at Carmel, Cal. He is one of the few living poets who write extended tragedies. Some consider him the most impressive poet the U. S. has ever produced. His verse is in long, unrhymed, irregular lines, usually powerful...