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Word: writings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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WHEN the artist must eat, and at the very best night clubs, art flies out the window. F. Scott Fitzgerald has decided to live well and write too. This is forgiveable and understandable in a young man of means. But when his writings maintain him in the style to which he is unaccustomed it take a good deal of writing for the Red Book to keep the purse at the proper bulge...

Author: By R. K. Lamb ., | Title: The Fitzgerald Manner Growing Up | 4/10/1926 | See Source »

...religion, in Pennsylvania and West Virginia, it is strikes, and in Massachusetts it is sex. It is worth a man's life to talk of strikes at some times, but it is worth a man's liberty at all times in this section of the country to write of morality, or rather, immorality...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MENCKEN BREAKS OATH TO SPEAK HERE TODAY--ATTORNEY GIVES VITRIOLIC TALK | 4/7/1926 | See Source »

...That students who pass successfully the Junior generals be required in their Senior year to do intensive study and research under the guidance of the tutors upon some topic which they be restricted field upon which they be required to write a thesis, the standard of which should be higher than the standard now set for distinction theses...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Student Council Committee Report Would Subdivide College on English System | 4/6/1926 | See Source »

...system which will be used at the University is as follows: Each competitor is to write for not more than two hours on one or two topics which are to be chosen by himself from a list of ten or 12 suggested by the events of the period beginning October 1, 1925, which will be indicated on the examination. The method of presentation as well as a knowledge of facts will be considered in determining the winner. If the judges are unable to pick a winner on the basis of the written examination alone, they reserve the right to require...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CURRENT EVENTS EXAM ON APRIL 16 | 4/2/1926 | See Source »

...will hear a lot about Sheila Kaye-Smith's Starbrace (Dutton). She wrote it some years ago while growing up to write The George and the Crown., Isle of Thorns, etc. It's about a lovable but deplorable young Midlands bucko back in England's border-war time, a good tale withal but not on the same counter with mature Kaye- Smithiana...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FICTION: Ham & Eggs | 3/29/1926 | See Source »

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