Word: writings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...humanity of one or two of our State Board of Prison Directors, I have been able to get paroled when I get in five calendar years. We are permitted to subscribe to newspapers and magazines, buy books that will pass the prison censor and are also allowed to write one letter each day, those of us of course, that care to take the advantage of those privileges and are financially able to do so. I am sending to you herewith, an express office money-order for the $5 due on my subscription and hope that you will not take...
...perfect bower of the rarest and most magnificent blossoms, although they are without perfume. Another interesting feature of the plaza is a great number of public letter-writers, called by the odd name of 'evangelists,' sitting under the arcade along one side. These gentlemen do not write with the pen, however, as do their fellows in other illiterate countries, but with typewriters. Around their desks cluster little groups of picturesque peones in cinema costumes-huge hats and white shirts, usually with the Mexican eagle and serpent embroidered on the bosom-and armed to the teeth. I wanted...
...bunch of American tourists were hissed and stoned yesterday in France, but not until they had finished shopping." Or, "Suzanne Lenglen has been landed by Pyle. He is now here in London trying to get Bernard Shaw to turn professional and write for money...
...Never Know Women (Florence Vidor and Lowell Sherman). Ernest Vajda, suave Hungarian creator of stage comedy, has been retained to write a motion picture. He has again indicated that the one talent does not necessarily embrace the other. You Never Know Women is pale and thin. It tells of a Russian vaudeville troupe in the U. S.; how the man-about-town interfered with the lovely acrobat's love for the magician. Miss Vidor, Mr. Sherman and an originally resourceful director called William Wellman have saved much from the wreck...
...greatgrandmother." This fact, "a source of unending pride . . . has grown into a humble yet valiant desire to write of times in which, if he had been the arbiter of his own destiny, he would gladly have lived." For ten years he has been gathering the material, and "foot by foot the hallowed ground has been travelled" for an historical novel with the Anglo-French struggle in the 1750's for domination of Canada as its background. Here, at last, is that novel. Its titular figure is Peter Joel, border mystery-man, who dyed his doeskins black, sooted his face...