Word: writings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Current Events and my teacher called me down before the whole class. I received no grade for the topic for she said it did not happen and was not possible. I told her it came from the magazine TIME, but it made no difference. Mother said I should write to you for the sake of my grade, hoping you could give me more information on the matter to convince my teacher. If you could I will appreciate it very much. MARIAN L. SHIELDS
Your request for an accurate description of the Merkle play just received upon my return from Boston, and I hesitate to write or even refer to this play, as every time it is brought forward it hurts a real fellow and a smart one, Fred Merkle.- However, there have been so many different accounts of this play maybe the public is entitled to some truth in the matter, for after all they pay the freight...
...Marx family of seven first lived in two rooms of London's shimmy Soho. Father Marx could not write at home. For years he went to the British Museum reading room to work. He had talked much of force, meaning bombs and guns. Henceforth he was busy building a powder magazine of ideas. He had written: "Theory, too, becomes a physical force when it takes possession of the masses." He also observed: "There can be no talk of a real revolution in such a time as this, when general prosperity prevails...
...perpetual Self-Winding Watch Co., makers of the watch are opening a contest open to students of the University to write a suitable ten word or less advertising headline featuring the watch. One of the watches will be awarded as a prize. Headlines should be mailed to the office of the company at 10 W. 47th St., New York City...
...Author was born in Kilkenny, Ireland, 1883; reached the U. S. in 1900; married Signe Toksvig of Denmark; did some law work in New York, editorial writing in Chicago, made the Friday Literary Review of the Chicago Evening Post the best thing of its kind in the Midwest; went to The New Republic to do books, resigned in 1922 to write books of his own?several historical-sociological works, one so-so novel (That Nice Young Couple), and now Henry the Eighth. He has found his work. Royalties on more than 100,000 copies of Henry are beginning to pour...