Word: writings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Whenever you write of Jugoslavia there is a certain dose of sarcasm present, and as a matter of fact, it seems that you are trying to picture Jugoslavia as a wooden kingdom, composed of semi-civilized peasants, with a clown king, and the mode of living of medieval times...
...began to give school books to all school children of the state, so as to get them in the schools and cure illiteracy. 2) We began to open up night schools for adults, so that we might teach the people from 20 to 70 years how to read and write and spell. We have already turned over thousands of people from illiteracy to literates by this process. 3) This administration turned the State Penitentiary from an institution losing a million dollars a year, to an institution making money. 4) That over the opposition of all the Ring newspapers...
...trenches the nighttime is the worst. Daytime in a front line trench is often strangely quiet, soldiers can sleep, scratch, write letters, but with evening stand-to, and the first blue Very light that curves up into the sky comes a cold tightening of the nerves, a ceaseless dread...
...volatile creature whose morals, unlike her golden slippers, were tarnished, she successively made him want to write an ironic short story, a romantic sonnet, an essay damning all literature, a bitter moralistic satire. But at length, with the cooling of his fevers, came wisdom. He realized that it was he, not Daisy, who changed -"my successive conceptions of Daisy had been merely the reflections'in another." Then, demanding only that she be her picturesque, wanton self, he wanted to write little sketches of her-attitudes, intonations, phrases-like the vignettes of Degas...
...full life (she is now 67) include: "I prefer their [moderns'] frankness to the old hypocrisy. . . . New York did not impress me. . . . [Lily Langtry was] the most beautiful woman I have ever seen. . . . I cannot pretend to be a judge of my own beauty . . . . When 'they' write my obituary notice, it should be the record of a woman who feverishly designed many things for the betterment of human lives. . . . I regret the passing of the horse...