Word: writings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...returning your coupon, allow me to say that, as a student of my fellow countrymen, I should greatly like to see a compilation of the statistics resulting from your study. It has been my plan to write a book some day, classifying the citizens of our country according to their sense of humor. Do not misunderstand me when I declare that TIME'S sense of humor is utterly unique in my experience. Your coupon was a prize example of it. I should never suggest that your readers are primarily attracted by your sense of humor, for of course your...
...Elizabeth Jaffray, White House housekeeper during four administrations, was induced to write some of her reminiscences for Mr. Hearst's Cosmopolitan magazine. She classifies the Presidents and their wives thus...
...Public Health, "promoted" him. The university had received $200,000 from the General Education Board for a chair of medical history, the first in the U. S. Few men are capable of this professorship. The average doctor learns piecemeal and verbally the Aeschulapian tradition and is little tempted to write on the history of his profession, although such writing should be comparatively easy. As Dr. Welch said last week: "There always has been but one goal in medicine, the prevention and cure of disease. That gives a unity to the history of medicine. It has a unity and continuity which...
...like that, no longer supple of bone, was taking: long chances, flying with fractures. His hosts led him to a Long Island hospital. There Mr. Montee thanked them, and asked for pen, ink, paper. He would let doctors examine his breakage, yes, but first he must write to Air Chief Patrick for another plane, to carry him on visits to Eastern airdromes, then across the continent, back home...
...Farm, Hartfield, Sussex (not far from Artist Rackham's beech tree). He used to be (1906-14) an editor of Punch. He fought all through the War and got back safely to tell stories to his son, Christopher Robin, who encouragred his father (by asking for more) to write a book of jingles called When We Were Very Young (1924). Writing things was nothing new for Author Milne. He had had plays of his played both sides of the Atlantic (Mr. Pim Passes By, The Truth About Blayds, The Dover Road). But the success of his children...