Word: writings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...please, next time when you intend to write any thing about Persia, watch your step and write facts or nothing at all; otherwise effective steps will be taken that the personal integrity of Pahlevi shall not be molested by such people that sell their honor and personality, their integrity and what not to the British money...
...number of 33 students competed for the prizes this year, an increase of about 50 percent over the number which presented itself last year. The examination was given in two parts, the first of which required a knowledge of a variety of specific facts and the second ability to write an essay on some subject chosen from a wide field...
...primary in Massachusetts approached. The same thing that was happening elsewhere began to happen in Massachusetts. This time President Coolidge wrote a note to Chairman Francis Prescott of the Republican State Committee and to him said: "Report has come to me that some persons in Massachusetts are proposing to write in my name as a candidate for President at the primaries on April 24. Such action would be most embarrassing to me and, while appreciating the compliment that is intended, I request that it not be done...
...Breaks. There is always a breath of country air in the production of J. C. (Father) and Elliott (Son) Nugent. They write their plays, one would suppose, while sitting on the front porch, and then read the script to the neighbors. Although the plot of their latest contribution hangs upon a surgical operation which is highly sophisticated if scientifically vague, the play retains a rural placidity. Perhaps this is because Father Nugent, a portly but very mildly sinister figure, acts his leading role...
...place. When the old lodger in the garret died, his grandson came west from Harvard. He was what Dorrie had wanted and she, apparently, suited him. At the end of the story, it is a comparatively safe guess that Dorrie will come to Manhattan, get her poems published and write a novel whose heroine is a dreamy little girl called Dawn Powell...