Word: writings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Whether or not it is a crime, punishable by fine and imprisonment, to write a perfectly good check for less than $1, was the question submitted last week to U. S. Attorney General John Garibaldi ("Rustic") Sargent...
...Proud Woman. Playwright Richman starts out to write a "character comedy." The story: a provincial maid, about to wed a wealthy Manhattanite, finds all her hopes, plans, thoughts, poisoned by the arrival of her sister who brings a small-town suspicion to the guileless urbanity of the metropolis. Near the end, the sister's meretricious snooping is smartly smacked down; marriage negotiations are resumed. The "comedy of character" fails to concentrate on one principal character. Little episodes of suspicion are heaped, one upon the other, to build up a mound of irritation, but not a real climax. No single...
MITYA'S LOVE-Ivan Bunin-Holt ($2). To one who can feel the horror of talking into empty rooms, of screaming into unechoing abysses, of writing to no response, of being knouted by silences-to such a one this story of Mitya's adolescent love for unanswering Katya tolls familiarly. Mitya did love the young, amorous girl. When she put her little hand on his arm and looked up at him, he was very happy and not a little proud, and "strode along, like a country boy, so fast that she could hardly keep up with him." There...
...work required in both Jews and Photographic competitions will be much the same as in former years, the rigors of both being comparable only to pleasure attached to the work. A news candidate is expected to write routine news, obtain interviews from famous person ages, write feature stories on occasion, and do a certain amount of office work. The aspirant for a place on the Photographic staff is given opportunity of taking pictures that have news value. Besides this he is furnished with the finest and latest photographic equipment. Dark room training is also supplied...
...pressure on Washington to adopt drastic measures in their behalf and have apparently succeeded in forging the issue. Time and again President Calles has declared that the new land laws are in no way retroactive an will affect only future property holdings. Nevertheless the State Department has continued to write notes bordering on the insulting to our neighbor beyond the Rio Grande. Apparently then, the State Department is acting in the interests of further economic penetration and expansion by American interests, and this is what is meant by threatened destruction of American business...