Word: writings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Andre Maurois, able French author (Ariel, Disraeli), is adept at picking representative material-albeit trite-in order to write a book, to father an essay. Deftly, for the New York Times, he took the main points for and against Prohibition, dangled them before the reader's eye, then put them away, told what dangling Prohibition arguments have taught him. Says M. Maurois...
...time as a hod carrier in Switzerland and then picked up enough French to earn his living by teaching it. Helper Mussolini wrote perhaps a quarter of each daily issue of Il Popolo. He cleaned up editorial and publicational odd jobs innumerable. Then he snatched time to write the paper's weekly feuilleton or "feature," which was most often a Socialist tract or homily, occasionally a short story, and only once under Mussolini achieved the serialized splendor of a Grande Romanzo...
...Greensboro, N. C., David Martin, 15, of Austin, Minn., and Douglas Oliver, 15, of Atlanta, Ga., are with Mr. and Mrs. Martin Johnson. Their message reached George Palmer Putnam, publisher, backer of their expedition, last week. Each boy has killed his lion. When they return this autumn they will write a book, Three Boy Scouts in Africa, for Mr. Putnam to publish. Commander Byrd last week was trying to choose a Boy Scout to go with him on his Antarctic trip...
...grievances-none of them new; flimsy partitions in European hotels; doctors' persistence in dealing with symptoms rather than causes; England's refusal to adopt the efficient decimal system; U. S. film kings; man's servitude to alcohol; young authors (stream-of-consciousness school) who do not write like Mr. Bennett...