Word: writings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Newspapermen racking their brains for things to write about at Swamp- scott raked up a report that Republican leaders in Massachusetts were talking to Mr. Coolidge about a Congressional reapportionment once in ten years.†A...
...Englishman, a Frenchman, a German, a Russian and a Pole, all were asked to write a treatise on the elephant. The Englishman bought a hunting kit, went to India. At the end of a year he returned, wrote a voluminously illustrated book entitled The Elephant and How to Shoot Him. The Frenchman went to Le Jardin des Plantes at Paris, observed the elephant, made friends with his keeper and in six weeks time wrote Les Amours des Eléphants. The German studied all the books and documents written on the elephant, then wrote a work in three volumes, entitled...
...attributed to Mr. Gladstone the character of a hypocrite in matters of sex. I have evidence of his conduct as good as any that exists about events in the past. I wrote what I did write on the authority of the late Lord Milner...
Continuing, he said: "The Admiralty are building against Japan; more fools they, seeing that our obvious policy, if and when the United States and Japan are at war, is to write leading articles in America's favor for the first two years of the war and to be too proud to fight until the third year, by which time we shall have had time to construct an overwhelming fleet of the most modern ships...
Before finding fault, may I express my admiration for the way in which you handle in small space complex matters apparently accurately? It is often easier to write a book than a sentence. Because of this general high level of accomplishment, it seems worth while to point out a recent misstatement...