Word: writing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...forbears, was born in Toronto, educated thoroughly and spasmodically. She went to art school in Toronto, but, in contrast to those writers who in moments of inertia decorate their manuscripts with little pictures, Author de la Roche scrawled small stories on her sketch papers. Even now she prefers to write with a drawing board on her knees. Jalna, chosen as the best of 1,100 novels, is by no means her first published work,* though it is the first to bring her wide recognition. Now, in her native city, tea, dinner, luncheon tables buzz with compliments from dullards, staggered...
...more than 200 have protested against it. - ED. šTIME on Aug. 29 promised: "If 100 subscribers write to TIME requesting a section on FASHION, they have it." ED. * Last week TIME stated that no more letters from Mr. Epstein would be printed. For the purpose of answering Mr. Blake's challenge (and for that purpose alone), the embargo is lifted...
...Spain recognizes in her greatest best seller, Vincente Blasco Ibaņez, a natural genius of vivid, soaring imagination, of exceptional descriptive talent, albeit unreliable in history, while his loose, inaccurate style has prevented him, in spite of all good will (I write advisedly), from admission to the Spanish Academy of Letters...
...enter into any controversy with any of my subordinate officers." But Benito Mussolini has given his countryman full recognition, has promoted him from colonel to general in the Italian Army. The growing political significance of the controversy, apparently, has goaded the Norwegian out of his dignified silence to write...
...book publishing concern in the U. S. which owns its own production plant. Doubleday, Doran & Co. has already (through Doubleday, Page) started a chain of U. S. bookstores which will provide the most extensive retail machinery known to bookmakers. Doubleday, Doran & Co. will do everything for an author but write his book; and for a reader, everything but read it. In England the famed firm of William Heinemann, Ltd., is the property of the new company, hav ing been controlled for some time by Doubleday, Page. William Heinemann is dead. Fourteen miles outside of London stands the Heineman plant...