Word: writings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...frets my soul to think that the Yanks, a nation far removed and by no means of the first rank, who with invincible logic found themselves in 1914-1918 too proud to fight, should with homely eloquence in 1927 find themselves too proud to learn to read and write...
...fine dinner with him -just fine! He asked me to write a letter to my husband saying I had been well treated...
...When Mark Twain read these jingles in a newspaper, they took (he said) instant and entire possession of him. He could not read, he could not write, he could not eat or speak or sleep, save to the drumming, infernal accompaniment...
...less honest than business, to the world and to itself. "The statistics which are issued by the Protestant churches are not sincere statistics." There is hardly a roll of "active" church members which is not impressively padded with inactive members. Big corporations have the sense and honesty to write false assets and known liabilities off their books. Not so the churches...
...sort of an organization is better than sitting in an office, trying to do the other fellow. . . ." This retort has had the approval of the sophisticated New York World, which said: "The Rotarian is not without his points." And does not President Glenn Frank of the University of Wisconsin write for the Rotarian among other publications?the same Glenn Frank whom that loudest anti-Rotarian toothgnasher, H. L. Mencken, has recommended, for U. S. President...