Word: writings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...year ago, thousands of citizens attended memorial banquets on the seventieth anniversary of the birth of Woodrow Wilson. To the banqueters and the country it was announced that the Woodrow Wilson Foundation would give $25,000 each to that man and that woman, aged 20 to 35 who would write the best 2,500-word essays entitled: "What Woodrow Wilson Means...
...inventor came to the U.S. last week with the news that he had found a means of clipping the telephone's claws, of removing one of its most obvious defects. Reporters, with naive excitement heard a description of Inventor J.G. Larsson's device. Its purpose is to write down the telephone messages when the intended recipient does not answer the telephone. Constructed on the principle of a dictaphone, the device establishes a connection after the signal has sounded, then it sounds a signal to indicate that a device, not a person, is ready to receive any desired message...
Eastern tribulations were increased when Stanford edged out a victory over unbeaten Pittsburgh 7-6. Fumbles preceded both touchdowns. Sixty thousand jammed the Pasadena Stadium to watch this Tournament of Roses spectacle write finish to the football season...
...Method. Author Hurst, desiring to write down a narrative of embryonic genius, was faced with a dilemma. To explicate the later prowess of the boy she writes about, to give to the man's career, after her history of his boyhood has been concluded, the semblance of truth, to make her fiction about his youth appear to be a biographical rather than an invented recountal, she imagines herself writing the book long after David Schuyler has become President of the U. S. It can be supposed that he became President in about 1950, that the book is written perhaps...
...York. In the same week a play of hers (The Royal Family) started what seemed to be her first great success in the theatre, and Florenz Ziegfeld's musical comedy made from her novel established itself magnificently as the best of its kind in town. She did not write the songs and jokes, but the librettist held closely to her basic story. The floating theatre on the Mississippi made a perfect background; Negro singers helped the melodies. These tunes were by Jerome David Kern, written at his best. Unlimited chorus girls and superbly competent principals (there is no star...