Word: writings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Charles A. Culberson, for a quarter of a century Senator from Texas, has taken his pen in hand to write the memoirs of one of the few living oldtimers, Southern style, of the Senate...
...abundantly clear that he has written a fair, searching and important factual narrative on the causes which made the Dardanelles campaign necessary, and on the ofcial conduct of that ill-fated venture. Mr. Churchill might well answer his critics that if historians had refrained throughout the ages to write of Philip of Macedon, the first great military strategist, because he was dead, nothing would now be known...
...Dear Wieringen Friends: I am sorry only to be able to write you goodbye. In order not to alarm the people, my return to the Fatherland must take place in great quiet...
...novels are written at high speed. I was particularly interested in his methods of writing. "I sometimes dictate an article; but never one of my stories," he told me. "Those I write in long hand very rapidly. The actual time it takes me to produce one of these novels may be very short-as short as two months; but on the idea, on the development of the plot, I may have been working for years." Those who have watched him work will tell you that he can carry on a conversation while he is writing. This is because the writing...
...first played Yale in 1873 recalls the days when football was less a science than a rough and tumble for bewhiskered gentlemen. On the walls of the Union there still hang quaint photographs to testify to the ferocious appearance of these doughty warriors. And the historian is apt to write that the last half of the past century saw the beginning of all things football. But an even more ancient lineage can be traced...