Word: writings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sirs: I view with covetous alarm the 18 cash prizes which you have recently offered to "boys and girls under 19" who are to write and tell you "why TIME is as important for boys and girls as it is for fully grown men and women." You say to these "children," in addition, "Unless your father is a very great man indeed, he doesn't often make $100 in half an hour...
...shouldn't you give me a chance to? Why leave me at the mercy of my female child, aged eleven, who may win your $100 prize and look down upon my grey hairs in scorn - when they become grey. Should I not have a chance to write and tell you why TIME is just as important to fully grown men and women as to boys and girls...
...tones as strident as peroxided hair, to rhythms that strutted like Negro girls in diamond tiaras. "The most authentic piece of music," said Carl Van Vechten, "that ever came out of America." Critics hurried to crown with bayleaf the youthful brow of George Gershwin. Walter Damrosch besought him to write a jazz concerto for the New York Symphony Society; Composer Gershwin said he would...
...Significance. It happens that the story of Jehu Sennacherib Dyle was set down in the last century and consigned to comparative obscurity, but its complete realism might tag it as written yesterday. Haldane Macfall wrote of Negro life in all its comic fullness, yet refused to write the regulation Negro comic story. Saith Carl Van Vechten, according to the blurb: "The Wooings of Jezebel Pettyfer is probably the best novel yet written about the Negro." And Critic Van Vechten is not far wrong, for Haldane Macfall can write. He has an extraordinarily observant eye and an equally effective...
...Alumri and they differ not in the least from the alumni of Yale, Princeton, Dartmouth or any other large college want victory. A coach in a large college is not a member of the faculty and therefore he is not defended by the faculty when the wid-eyed alumni write demanding...