Word: writings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...friends explained that he retired then, "in good time, to make room for the younger men." His enemies hinted that the temperamental Wilhelm II had evinced displeasure at the way in which he maneuvered his corps. He retired "to my cottage at Hanover" and commenced to write "for my family alone" the memoirs of what he considered a long life...
This sudden manner with which the Countess announces that she has a book for sale provokes a faint smile of suspicion. However, when one has occupied the front page of a nation's newspapers for several consecutive days, one can do wonders, even write novelist in fortnights...
...first three minutes equals $36.90. I live farther from South Carolina than the man at Union City, N. J., and it cost him more than nearly twice as much, so there is something wrong with your item. It may seem funny for a 12-year boy to write and criticize, but I am interested in your magazine and look over the news carefully. (Answer soon...
...write to urge continuance of the Quiz column. It teaches caution and affords diverting group entertainment...
...predominant values place it well above the color level of such books. It bears no relation to popular bourgeiose stories, and its specious simplicity is belied on every page by an intellectually mature grasp of life. Immediately obvious becomes the pervading quality of seasoned craftsmanship in similar types of writing, of vigorous literary cadence, of a thoughtfully crystallized attitude to wards life. If the author had only a modicum of idealism or of disillusionment, he would write dynamically and "God Head" would not be a non-essential enigma...