Word: writing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...past few years, biographies have enjoyed a steadily increasing vogue, and with this trend has sprung up a class of biographers depending for their fame and popularity more on their ability to write entertainingly than on their qualifications, if any, as scholars and historians. Their main purpose has been to entertain, and since the general public is more interested in people that are human, perhaps even a bit naughty, this new school of semi-historical writers has led to the exposing of one shibboleth aften another, the rendering of innumerable veils, the puncturing of bubbles, and the over-turning...
...mere mention of my having a cold elicited this offer of what the giver assures me is an effective remedy. My cold has long since gone but nevertheless I am very grateful for the antidote. As a matter of fact the bottle is here on the table as I write and occasionally I take a sip, in order that I may establish a sort of personal relation with my generous unknown friend. Whoever you are and wherever you are I should like to see you if ever you come to New Haven; you must come over for dinner...
...wholesome human sentiment. No author's name would recommend a selection deficient in any one requirement. For example, Stevenson's children's verses were mostly "adult opinions in grown-up language". "I wouldn't have in my book a poem with 'birdie' in it, even if Alfred Tennyson did write it." I fondly thought that Campbell's "Battle of the Baltic" would appeal to him, for it contained the phrase "Heart of Oak," which was the name of his "Books"; but no! "That was bad business for England to be in, and I won't have...
...speech of last week, declaring that the enforcement of prohibition should be the main issue of the 1928 campaign, he little realized how far-reaching would be some of the effects of his statement. The idea of non-enforcement of the constitution affects different people in different degrees. Some write their congressman, some tell the family what Bernard McFadden said about it this morning, and some are merely reminded to get a new corkscrew next time they are down in the market district. But to the members of the Women's National Committee for Law Enforcement the message of Senator...
...zoological probe into the centre of the dark continent. This is a volume of short stories; love stories, African anecdotes, color stories about a chief who understood black magic, a leopard hunt, a march of wild phantoms through the jungle. The obvious comment upon princes, even Swedish princes, who write books is that laudatory insult reserved, also for bears who ride bicycles. But the literary lapses of Prince William do not suggest the comparison; he rides the fictitious bicycle of his fictions with grace, speed, confidence and dexterity, though lacking, perhaps, the vigor and finesse of a six-day champion...