Word: writings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...creating a life fellowship for Robert Frost, by the terms of which he has merely to remain in residence at Ann Arbor and write poetry, the University of Michigan has done an excellent piece of work. The esoteric quality of poetry precludes any great financial returns, and since the institution of private patrons is dead, the poet who is rich in imagination but poor in purse finds himself sore beset by creditors...
...English a citizen should write to an Anglican bishop who happened also to be a trustee of a non-Catholic college and pointed out a similar fact no and would be brightered. Men would take up the debate in an open fashion and intelligent men would adopt a quiet gone in canvassing the innovation...
...taught me the lesson of diligence"; ". . . at 11 years of age, I made my biggest purchase ... a small red leather Bible"; "Give the customer what he has a right to"; "My conscience won't let me take people's time to read some of the things I write"; are among his quoted comments...
...Russell H. Conwell, who remarks : "My task is not to write a biography, but to tell the story of my friend," is the author of the celebrated Acres of Diamonds, (TIME, Sept...
Your editor has given me a list of names of authors whom he desires to be limned in this column. Some of them I have met. Some are strangers to me in the flesh ; but, willy nilly, I am determined to write a column concerning them. First, is Elinor Wylie, born in Washington, married now to William Rose Benét, living in rural Connecticut, writing vigorously on a new novel...