Word: writing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...also talked about his famed lie of 1923-his letter to the Senate saying that Publisher McLean and not Oilman Doheny had "loaned" him $100,000. He named Senator Reed Smoot, onetime Senator Irvine L. Lenroot and a Harding Cabinet Member as the persons who had advised him to write the lying letter. Senators Smoot and Lenroot were quick to deny having anything to do with the letter...
...write with no purpose of challenging the motives of the members of the House or unduly criticizing their action. On the contrary, I feel certain that that body was largely influenced by the desire of showing that spirit of forgiveness and conciliation which are so honorable to human nature and characteristic of Christian forbearance and teaching. . . . Nevertheless, I think, with all due respect, the action of the House was a great mistake. There is such a thing as excess even in kindness...
...Perhaps I Am" is not even as good as "Twice Thirty", and one regrets to see the man who could write such biographies as "The Man From Maine" and "The Americanization of Edward Bok" descending to the trivialities of Hmericks, often stale jokes, and even at best, a disjointed mass of, for the most part, pointless anecdote...
...best reasons why musical comedy has been so unusually successful lately is that its composers are beginning to realize that they must write pieces that people can sing and play themselves," she continued. "The production must have catching numbers that are easily remembered, that people can him and carry along in their heads with out effort." Here she illustrated her point by humming a familiar part of "Sometimes I'm Happy," keeping time with the motions of her curling-iron...
Commenting upon Walter Hampden's recent statement that the level of the stage would be lowered if Shakespeare were abandoned, Mr. Howard said. "I always read Shakespeare with a good deal of boredom at first, but the longer I am on the stage, and the more I write myself, the more I appreciate the man's greatness. I hope to play Shakespeare before very long, if only to gratify a whim. The plays that he wrote and those of his contemporaries are unequalled as far as an actor is concerned...