Word: writings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Warmed with a lively knowledge of human hypocrisy, and desiring to make the best possible disposal of certain resources which had served him, in his lifetime, jauntily and well, Charles Vance Millar, Canadian turfman, corporation lawyer, sat down to write his last will and testament. When he died recently his friends pronounced the will a practical joke, his last. Surely, a later will would be found. Then, chuckling, they read...
...Clarke's announcement that the Kingdom would hold a convention at St. Louis in March, "to wage an aggressive warfare against every doctrine and every theory which seeks to rob God of His Supreme Majesty as Creator and reflects upon man as His highest creation." In a word, to write an anti-Evolution statute into the nation's law books. Dr. Straton was then brought forth to inflame the gathering's righteous zeal with some of his astonishing pulpit oratory: "Man or Monkey, Which...
...painting, The Statue, by Hubert Robert, the lively 18th Century French painter admired by Voltaire. Fortnight ago I secured at the Michelham sale in London (TIME, Dec. 6) Romney's much coveted portrait of Lady de la Pole, for $220,000. I often buy pictures. Less frequently, I write poetry...
According to an announcement made last night the Harvard Dramatic Club is going to revive interest in play-writing at Harvard by organizing a group of men interested in this work in meet at regular intervals to discuss problems of dramatic writing and to write plays for production by the club or, it they merit it, for submission to Broadway producers...
...smiled. "You want to give it something? Of course you may write." He scribbled fiercely on the margin of a page of clear, large print. Marginal notes. He had given of his lore to the book child of the lovely lady...