Word: writings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...seeking mind. The Vossische Zeitung, Berlin Socialist journal, commenting upon this foreword, said that the public must appreciate the fact that the book was written by the Crown Princess before the War, and that she has not, like "most writers from the former higher regions, learned to write after the War -and then they were forced to have some one guide their pens...
...cause you any mental effort to read "The Nervous Wreck". I strongly suspect, in fact, that it didn't cause the author any mental effort to write it. Probably he just started writing and wrote easily on, letting the plot unfold itself as it saw fit. That was the way with Henry Williams, alias "The Wreck". When he started out in his flivver, he just went nowhere in particular wherever chance took him. And Sally, being his sole passenger (and a very delightful one, too, I hasten to add). Sally, having really very little choice in the matter, just went...
There is a great difference between writing of the journey of a man to the South Seas, and setting down the travels of a commuter along the daily paths, in this case, of politics. That is why it is difficult to write a biography of Calvin Coolidge. But at the end of only a few months of his Administration, there are now two books on Mr. Coolidge...
...late Dr. Boris Sidis, eminent authority on psychopathology, decided when his son was born to give him a more intensive education than the American school, with what Dr. Boris called at the time its "discipline and routine," its "rubbish and refuse," could furnish. The boy could read and write at the age of two; at seven he passed the Harvard Medical School examinations in anatomy; at eight he could speak French, Russian, English, German, and could read Latin and Greek; at ten he entered Tufts; and at eleven he entered Harvard, graduating in 1914. He taught mathematics in Rice Institute...
...this Masefield writes for us, in the austere numbers of "Samson Agonistes;" he is probably the only latter-day poet that can catch their authentic note. And the songs incorporated in the play show that he has not forgotten how to write lyrics as they should be written. It is a good play, almost a great play. And yet (shamefacedly I confess it) I prefer his earlier, and therefore presumably less mature work. For there is no one can write as he can of the sea, and of them that go down, to the sea in ships...