Word: writings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...should be ashamed to think of his wife!* What she would think of you I know! When some funeral has been held for these heroes, when the beautiful custom of strewing rose leaves on the water has taken place, then you can write of Coli as "late" - not till then...
Inwardly, however, Miss Thompson and her peers were saying: "It just shows what you can write when you've got the big name and they let you cut loose. That is, if you've got the ability...
...Careening through life with the impetus of a cannon ball, Balzac dashed into love affairs at every turn. His first two mistresses were twice his age. People of all sorts, from grocery clerks to emperors, fired his imagination to write about them. In the meantime, he loved carriages, good wine, sleek clothes, expensive food. He ran up debts of 150,000 francs and trying to extricate himself by scatter-brained schemes, increased them. His economic principle was that spending more money means the necessity for earning more money, and as his only sure way of earning more money...
...write the story of a great civilization one must know where the electricity of existence has darted, one must know where the dynamic force of life has sparkled, and how, and why. All this eccentric and scattered heat produces the energy which makes a country flourish and grow strong. The huge engines of government are powered by insignificant fires, lighting a far-away gloom. In charting these fires history differs from documents, becomes imaginative literature...
...first volume, "The Agricultural Era," carries the story to the pre-Civil War period, from which "The Industrial Era" continues it to the present. The second volume is perhaps the more important, dealing with a less colorful period but one through which fewer able historians have ventured. Authors Beard write in what has been regarded as the proper manner for historians since Tacitus published his Annals, with taciturn detachment, thoughtful compactness, dignity...