Word: writings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Your correspondent in Persia I believe is not very much interested to let your people and the whole world to hear about situations in Persia and the great progress which our nation is making under the leadership of Reza Khan Pahlavi. I have made up my mind to write a few strokes about affairs in Persia and beg you, meanwhile not to refuse to have the gist of my statements printed in your paper...
...writing this note in the hope that it will swell the number who will write to you protesting this last issue...
...excited more blissful anticipation than this return of the Marx Brothers. These four ingenious gentlemen first sprang into magnificent prominence two years ago with a noisy, nondescript and stunningly hilarious adventure called I'll Say She Is. Whereupon Irving Berlin gathered them unto himself and agreed to write music for their next show; George S. Kaufman (Merton; Beggar on Horseback; The Butter and Egg Man) was summoned to write the book; and producer Sam H. Harris released $100,000 or so into circulation to pay for costumes, settings, subordinates. From this fertile pasture The Cocoanuts grew...
Miss Kennedy is permitted to become slightly intoxicated in the second act in hilarious memory of her famous scene in Fair and Warmer. It is regrettable that the resemblance to that extraordinary rumpus stops short at that. Some day someone will write another Fair and Warmer for Miss Kennedy and then the whole city will turn out with trumpets...
...gained in such an editorial competition is most useful in its application to later work," said one former chairman of the CRIMSON Editorial Board, now actively engaged in metropolitan newspapers work, in a statement last night. The competition is of particular value in teaching men to think concisely and write well. It presents one of the few opportunities to undergraduates of applying information acquired in college courses, and affords practice in a forceful style of writing which is often neglected. It is, therefore, not only instructive in regard to the mastery of composition, but stimulating to constructive thought...