Word: writings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...subscribers write to TIME requesting a section on FASHION, they shall have...
...letterhead of the Drake Hotel, Chicago. Mr. Knapp (newsstand buyer) has never registered at the Drake; is unknown to Mr. Drake and to Drake employes and to frequenters of the Drake lobby. His letter (mailed in New York) prompted H. C. Wood of Germantown, Pa., last week to write...
Prior to the year 1898 life in Oklahoma was not complex for Jackson Barnett, a Creek Indian. He could neither read nor write, but he easily satisfied his humble needs by laboring occasionally for 50c a day. In 1898 the U. S. Government allotted to him 160 acres of land. That was good, he thought?a place all his own for his shack?plenty of space for roaming?maybe there was a little easy money in the land, in spite of its rocks and sterile soil...
...through the maze of the literary market, with all financial short cuts plainly marked, will be drawn for 50 students at the Bread Loaf Conference, branch of Middlebury College (Vt.) summer session, which opened this week. "The interests of creative writing" are chiefly nurtured, say the bulletins. Actually the conference is unique in that it tells what the editors (who sign the checks) want. Long-maned poets, arriving to discover how to make poetry pay, will be told that poetry never pays.* People who "think they would like to write" will find themselves rudely face to face with a pencil...
Heywood Broun, most liberal of colyumists, and the World, most liberal Manhattan English-speaking daily, fell out. Mr. Broun wrote two vivid attacks on the Sacco & Vanzetti prosecution. The World printed them.* The World then advised Mr. Broun (casually, he says: pointedly, they say) to write about something else. He wrote two more pieces about Messrs. Sacco & Vanzetti. The World refused them print. Readers asked why. Ralph Pulitzer, son of the late Joseph Pulitzer through whose genius the World grew famed, signed a statement. He caused the statement to be published at the top of the space daily allotted...