Word: writings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...voted that F. V. Field '27, should be delegated to write a letter to the students of the University of Buenos Aires, in answer to the communication recently received from them to the students of the University. This answering epistle is to be sent by Professor Coriolano Alberini, head of the Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Buenos Aires, who attended the Philosophical Congress held here this fall...
...Sale. Then suddenly, last January (TIME, Jan. 25), Mr. Hughes bounded into the public eye as the interpreter of a new George Washington. Citizens were shocked by his speech before the Sons of the American Revolution in Washington, D. C. Senators flayed him. So Mr. Hughes set about to write a scholarly biography to prove he knew his George Washington. Last week's publication is the first half of the effort. The future volume will be entitled: George Washington, the Rebel and the Conservative...
...North American Review, a magazine often found in libraries, to a corporation lawyer named Walter Butler Mahony, brother-in-law of President Nicholas Murray Butler of Columbia, for a sum that he refused to state.* And why did Colonel George Harvey sell his magazine? Because he is going to write the biography of Henry Clay Frick...
Friends of onetime (1921-23) Ambassador Harvey have never thought it strange that he should admire the late Henry C. Frick, that he should be retiring, now, to write the life of his hero, among other biographical and historical writing that he has laid out for himself. Henry Frick, the doer, would inevitably appeal to George Harvey, the talker, gangling, circumloquacious George Harvey with his big Adam's apple, his quick loyalties and fierce antagonisms, his life of violent spurts in oblique directions. Both men had had adventurous and active early years, Henry Frick (born 1849) baking coke...
...recoils. But he has proceeded so far in his feverish plans that the tide of circumstance sweeps him on. An overturned rowboat, a camera used as a bludgeon, and Roberta drowns, perhaps murdered. The Law bays and quarters. A ghastly courtroom inquisition, a horrible, nerve-wracking, death-cell nightmare, write the final chapter of a well-written, well-acted, well-produced, authentic tragedy...