Word: writings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...wish here to express my admiration for this weekly news periodical. The LETTERS section is a veritable "Comedie humaine." I disagree thoroughly with all of your critics; 1 enjoy your language and the manner of most all your "write-ups." The report of the Florida disaster was tremendously effective: "midnight rain came softly pattering like children's footsteps" is fine; "People drowned like trapped puppies to the frivolous dirge of tinkling glass" ; "creatures crept-pawed dazedly-sought kin-bodies"-what a picture! Desolation ; and then "ghouls peered about, tampered with corpses." And so on. I do not mind "famed...
Said Mrs. Hoover: "May I write the story of your childhood...
...parental fold, puts aside a flashy lover for the night-school teacher, the young people stay in on occasional evenings, and Papa admits a few modifying Americanisms into the rigidly Talmudic routine of the household. As diversified Jewish types, Actors Sam Mann, Clara Langsner, Muni Wisenfrend, and Luther Adler write whole life histories into feeble, broken lines, and it is in their creative work that the play's chief virtue lies...
These political quacks monkey with our rights--but they will not let us write of monkeys...
...meals a year, have our own commissary, buy our own supplies, and are thoroughly familiar with eating problems. We have been able to help colleges before with suggestions in regard to dining halls and would like to enter the lists against the Harvard problem. But we don't write essays...