Word: writings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sort of treason?the treason of destructively criticizing a dead man's ideals?was charged last week against that august intellectual aristocrat Dr. Hu Shih. famed as "the foremost Chinese modern thinker," founder of the Chinese Literary Renaissance, first Chinese to write poetry in the spoken language of the people, graduate of Cornell (B. A.) and Columbia...
...duties of the office of President of Nicaragua require me to write for publication some statements that are a little severe. ... It seems to me that a crime was committed against this country when ... a nation friendly to Nicaragua was offended in the greatest pride that it can have, the honor of its army and of its marines. I refer to the United States of America...
André Maurois, 44, was born in El-beuf, France, of a family which owned the textile mills there. The War released him from his family's uncongenial business, his knowledge of languages procured him with the British G. H. Q. a post easy enough to permit him to write three books. The War over, he still found need to work at the mills three days a week, writing the last three days. Many a U. S. student remembers his U. S. lectures in the autumn of 1927. Now Author Maurois lives in Paris with his wife and three children...
...serial auto-biography currently appearing in the Saturday Evening Post. Answered he: "I dictated it. . . . I'll tell you the secret of concentration. Just get in the front seat of a car. Light a good cigar and ride along looking at your feet. It's a great way to write articles...
...dictionary do readers of average U. S. newspapers need for such journalistic jargon as sugar daddy, love nest, heart balm, torch murder. But last week the epigrammarians who write U. S. head lines were confronted by a phrase which even they could not grasp without assistance...