Word: writings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...atheist doctrine and tradition of which Prussia had been the increasingly successful exponent for 150 years would ultimately prove weaker than the culture of Christendom." John Maynard Keynes, famed British economist: "I don't know!" Wilhelm Hohenzollern* apparently instructed his Secretary, Admiral H. von Rebeur-Paschwitz, to write the following letter, of which the Legion Weekly produced a fac- simile: "In answer to your letter dated May 31st, His Majesty the Emperor tells me to let you know that he regrets not being able to comply with your request. As to the question: 'What did the World gain...
...says: "You may be sure that I am very much annoyed with the King for treating me like a serving wench. That would have been all right for his precious Maintenon.* She was born for that sort of treatment but I was not." Most people found it dangerous to write of their Sovereign in such terms even in private letters, which were always liable to be opened by the notorious Louvois and their contents communicated to the King...
...Munsey has attained his pinnacle and he is enjoying it. What else, for example, is there but enjoyment in the short leading editorial which of late The Sun (Manhattan) has taken to? They are such editorials as the squire himself would write. No one of the hired under-wardens of the editorial page would dare to write so. For example...
George II, onetime King of the Greeks: "Paris despatches pictured me broke, seeking a business career compatible with my dignity. It was said that, could I find a good impresario, I would prefer to write plays for stage and film...
...distinction and unction. They are pleasant trophies to him, to be adroitly hung about his plot, to be celebrated, to be worshipped. There are times when I like his style immensely. There are times when I do not like it at all. Yet it is far, far better to write beautifully as Mr. Hergesheimer does, and to annoy occasionally with involved sentences or word tricks than it is not to make any pretence at fine writing at all, which is the case with a multitude of his fellow novelists. There are no finer stories in American annals than those...