Word: writings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Lady Oxford, reviewing her own book in The Daily Graphic: "The second chapter on America was written for publication and has reservations, which is unfortunate. It would have been more interesting had she been able to write with complete freedom...
...current number of the Advocate, throughout a considerable amount of fiction, maintains an unusual degree of capability. The sketches range in theme from the intrigue of a sailor in Java to the gossip of ladies at afternoon bridge. The authors who have contributed these sketches write with assurance. They preserve an air of tried narrative skill; they expound both masculine and feminine character unabashed, as if experience sat lightly upon their shoulders, and no recess of human nature could resist the tolerant ease of their perceptions. Nor do they permit themselves any unduly meretricious display of mastery: restraint and directness...
...take an Original Subscriber's privilege and write to you about your review of the parody Lampoon (TIME, Apr. 27, Page 18), which I have just read? I think you ought to let someone else from Harvard, if not myself, tell your readers that the issue did not deserve all the hard words you wrote about it; there was much of it that was quite honestly funny, and the whole of it was done in a free-hearted spirit not always appreciated by those who, like your reviewer, take this world very seriously. After all, why look for blasphemies...
...BEST NEWS STORIES OF 1924- Edited by Joseph Anthony and Woodman Morrison-Small, Maynard ($2.50). He who writes for him who reads as he runs must learn to write as he runs. For the latter's assistance, there is the who-what-where-when-how formula for first paragraphs, with its variations peculiar to various copy-desks. But within the narrow confines of a formula, triteness is escapable only by the unusually agile-minded reporter. The editors of this anthology have selected 70 examples of such agility -straight reporting, foreign correspondence, sport, "features," human interest, interviews and personality stories...
...opportunity to learn and to sing Harvard songs for the love of singing them. Now that the need is made manifest the Union should step into the breach and provide the opportunity here before lacking." So you write in the reading editorial of this morning's issue...