Word: writings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...today one of the most talked about cars in America. . . . The Little Marmon is a most unusual car and is being manufactured and merchandised as "America's first truly fine small car." I really think that the Little Marmon should have had a paragraph in your Show write-up; not only because I handle Marmon cars do I think this, but also for the reason that this car is proclaimed by competitive manufacturers and dealers as being one of the most brilliant events in Marmon history...
...Wherefore, and if not why-not," of the euclitic 'thee' in 'prithee'. Since I am, of course, posted in advance of the questions which are going to be asked, I am also ready to distinguish between Plato, Pluto, Plutarch, Pliny, and Petrarch, and if necessary to write a limerick...
Turn about is fair play. Manhattan newspapers last week invited professional musicians to write criticisms of a Bach, Mozart and Brahms program, rendered on three pianos and with the assistance of a student stringed orchestra, by a group of amateurs factiously styled the Kadenza Kids. The Kadenza Kids were Music Critic Olin Downes of the New York Times, Novelist-Critic John Erskine (Private Life of Helen of Troy, Galahad) and his daughter Rhoda, and Ernest Urchs, a partner of the Steinway Co. Their object: to raise money for the MacDowell Colony* at Peterborough...
Having been informed that you are proposing to publish an article on football, criticizing the methods of playing of the Princeton team. I venture to write you this letter. Of course I have no right to ask you to refrain from publishing anything, but I think it is proper to say that all the authorities of Harvard University would deeply regret the publication of anything derogatory to Princeton, or its football team; and that we should be very grateful it you saw fit to withdraw the article in question. Very truly yours, (Signed) A. Lawrence Lowell...
...regret that I cannot comply with your request and have my article withdrawn. I say this for two reasons. First because, although I did not write the article in question with a view to capitalising it, I have accepted payment for it. Second, and most important, I most firmly and sincerely believe not only in that which I have written but in the support of the many Harvard men, in official positions and otherwise, who have endorsed and encouraged...