Word: writings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Lake Memphremagog, Quebec. Robert Stanley Weir, for 16 years Recorder of Montreal (1899-1915) was mourned by Canadians last week not because of his lifetime of public service and distinguished legal reputation but as the author of O Canada, the Canadian national song. Strictly speaking, Jurist Weir did not "write" O Canada but paraphrased and extensively altered into English an earlier version in French by Judge Routhier. The present version, chanted by Canadians on public occasions, is almost unknown...
...laughter, blood of the play, flows freely again. In the last scene, the amateur gigolo appears in time to prevent Ann from running off with his professional colleague. After all, had not these two misunderstood souls been welded into an eternal bond by the Tschaikovsky business ? But why write of the play? The wisecrack's now the thing. To Actor Osgood Perkins, most of the many funny lines have been entrusted- and wisely...
...fight Tunney before he had fought black Harry Wills? The New York State Boxing Commission thought he was; the New York License Committee thought otherwise, refused to issue a license. Tex Rickard, promoter, thought he was; Padraic Mullins, manager of Wills, disagreed. Attorney General Albert Ottinger was asked to write opinions on points of law that would aforetime have been left to the bartender. Meanwhile at Saratoga Dempsey, growing rapidly browner and harder, continued to train, sometimes slipping off in the afternoon to see the horses run. Forty miles away, at Gloversville, Tunney pounded the bag or jogged over...
...multiply is the permanent slave type, destined to function like the worker bees." The burthen of his remarks was the old scare that the world's food supply will some day fall far short of its population. Childhood Memories. Compose yourself, be seated with pencil and paper, write down every thought that occurs to you for two hours. Do this several times and show the results to your parents. Very likely they will be able to corroborate many a thought as reflecting something that happened to you at a very early age, 6 mos. even. The explanation, according...
...Nobile as to who did what aboard the Pole-crossing Norge (TIME, Aug. 2). Mr. Ellsworth was quoted directly. Hurt, angry, he flayed the Norwegian Aero Club for permitting Nobile to assume prominence upon the expedition in the first instance, and specifically, for telling Nobile, lately, that he might write more than a "technical appendix" to the official book of the trip, which Ellsworth and Amundsen are compiling. Words like this came forth: "They have handed me a rotten deal. . . . How very different when they needed money...