Word: writings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Author. Mr. Felix Isman was once the business partner of Weber and Fields. With them he ran the Broadway Theatre, Manhattan, and produced many successes. They begged him to write this book about them. When it ran serially in the Saturday Evening Post, Wesley W. Stout was given credit as joint author. In the foreword Mr. Isman (an Elk, a Mason, now a realtor) thanks Mr. Stout for his assistance...
...machinery of government is often halted while the chief executive of the State lays a corner stone; but it is very seldom that a busy governor can spare ten minutes of the people's time to write a personal letter of encouragement to a small and unknown invalid. That is what Governor Fuller has done, however, and it is safe to say that little Eddie O'Neil of Attleboro will treasure till his dying hour the card and note that reached him on his fifth birthday...
...domineering spirit down through seven generations of Rakowitz women who overruled seven generations of Rakowitz men. The book is an extraordinary graph of the involved ganglia, the subtle criss-crossing veins, the interwoven tissues of a great family. It is written as Mr. H. G. Wells used to write before too many ideas gave his style the gout...
This seems to be the open season for writing letters to TIME about errors in its colnmns, and reading the letters of other subscribers incites me to write one, although I have no particular error to which I wish to call attention. Once in a while I see one and feel like writing to you about it and then am too lazy, and find ultimately that it was not important enough to make a fuss about or that somebody else has written you about...
...position as prosecuting attorney. This personality he now gives to letters with the same quiet determination. He is still young; and the shelf of his own books is already large. He has written wisely of American society and business. There is no reason why he should not some day write that penetrating study of the great American business man which has yet to be put within pages. In "Uncle Shiras" of The Needle's Eye he foreshadowed this. Such a novel burns to he written...