Word: writing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...would interest me greatly to know just how many women write you about this...
...quickly conveyed by a more common word, he is held in contempt by his associates. You seem to go to great length to make a display of your vocabulary. You have had a penchant for using unusual words since your publication started, and I had occasion to write to you in a similar vein a few years ago, but "the seed apparently has fallen on barren ground...
...intellect profound, searching, inclusive, an artistry profound and subtle in all his works. These in translation have been Royal Highness, ironic comment on the life of kings; Death in Venice, three short stories; Buddenbrooks, monumental saga of the 19th Century. Son of a merchant, Herr Mann had to write secretly at first, functioning ostensibly as a life insurance salesman...
...Plague take the Literati! My stuff's not literature at all, more like a kind of fertilizer for future literature. Yes, I guess that's what I am, boys, a kind of manure. I know what I'm talking about. I used to write little pieces for the papers, book reviews, tattle, editorials on politics, the usual run of shad, come-day go-day palaver. Then something happened. I remember one day I got kind of a desperation, I put down some lines in a notebook, 'I am the poet of slaves and of the masters...
...college the same tendency, though perhaps not to so great an extent, is to be distinctly observed. Any knowledge of the art of writing which the student may have acquired before coming to the University is soon lost upon his arrival, and the present objectionable system of taking notes compels him to fall in line with his fellow students in inventing a suitable method of short hand to enable him to take down the maximum number of facts in the minimum amount of time. Indeed, on the few occasions when he is compelled to write in examinations the results...