Word: writings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...distinction of having Banker Morgan among its visitors mitigated and contrasted with the ignominy of another Harvard occurrence last week. The Senior class had elected one Edward Fuller Fitzhugh Jr., of Boise, Idaho, to write the Baccalaureate hymn. That was a sad selection for Harvard. Poet Fitzhugh wrote four quatrains of lofty, Harvardian sentiment to be sung to the tune of "Ancient of Days." The lines were published. Not until then, last week, was it discovered that the first letters of the lines in each quatrain spelled a four-letter word. The first two words were the same, an unprintable...
...Significance. Author Burnett, impersonal, powerful, may prove to be the novelist which Ernest Hemingway once promised to be but is not yet. Little Caesar is masterly writing as well as great reporting. The story holds together toughly through many intricacies of men and motives. To answer people's questions as to why he considers it necessary or important to write authentically, seriously about U. S. gangsters, Author Burnett quotes shrewd Renaissance Reporter Macchiavelli : "You sow ripen." He hemlock, and thinks that expect to see "crime, the ears of corn Chicago brand at least ... is an indication of vitality" (TIME, June...
...feet rose New York's short, swart Congressman La Guardia. The La Guardia corpuscles, and many a La Guardia constituent, are Latin. Mr. La Guardia arose to defend the fame of that late great Latin, Christopher Columbus. "The House,'' he cried, "ought not to attempt to write history." While expressing 'the greatest admiration and love and affection for the people of Iceland." he clung to the "tangible historical record of the discovery by Columbus...
Wrote he: "If the Syndicat does not support me in this affair in which I am trapped . . . whalebone dealers will be able to attack fashion chroniclers who write against corsets. ... On that day there will be no more liberty of the pen, there will be no freedom of appreciation, there will be no more journalists, and there will be no further use for the Syndicate of Journalists. Allow me to believe in its usefulness...
Calvin Coolidge, autobiographer for Cosmopolitan magazine, interviewed in Manhattan last week, was asked if he liked to write. "I don't," he said. "Oh, I don't find it so difficult to sit and write about something that I know very well, such as my own life, but a career of writing...