Word: writings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...wonder why some Harvard man does not write a football song that could be sung at the Harvard-Princeton football game...
...Everlasting Life" gives evidence of the author's ability to write clearly; but in itself it is not distinguished. The last paragraph will surely seem to some readers, not unreasonably, superfluous. "Love 1" is at best much ado about nothing. The first three paragraphs are tedious and muddy; the last two, insipid. It seems the work of a weary man who is expected to write something arresting, witty, facetious, and who would fain comply with the editors' demand. It certainly is neither witty, nor facetious, nor arresting. However pressed for material the editors may have been it was not kind...
...comment with perfect fairness on the individual performances would be merely to write a catalogue of praise for each character. Miss May Collins' "Lady Teazle" was a delightfully fresh and vivacious piece of work, and one of real power in the dramatic movements. Sir Peter Teazle by O. P. Heggle, and Sir Oliver by Mr. Ben Field were also particularly notable; and among the minor parts Mr. De Angelis, as Moses, was the best stage Jew we have ever seen, bar none. James Dale as Joseph Surface was oily enough and hypocritical enough to damn forever the "man of sentiment...
...write you this letter calmly, not happen to be interested in any of the five men whose pictures by Artist Woolf you offer for sale in this outrageously restricted manner. But I do have my eye on the extremely spirited sketch of Otto H. Kahn, by Artist Stevenson, which appears on the cover of your Nov. 2 issue. Is it to be "offered" also...
...China to be allowed to write her own tariff schedules after Jan. 1, 1929, and to agree in return to abolish the internal "likin" (transit duties) and other trade taxes; this arrangement to be embodied in a new treaty, supplanting the present customs treaties between China and the Powers; the actual collection of the customs money to remain in the hands of the Powers as at present...