Word: writings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...things you say about people under their pictures are sometimes little short of disgusting. What a blasphemy to print the photograph of saintly Joseph Lister and underneath it say: "They reminded him of sewage." I wish my husband was here to write you the indignation he, a doctor, would have felt at your indecency. "Joseph Lister slopped carbolic acid."' Ugh I Evidently you never heard that medicine is a ministry. I am sure Dr. Lister performed his miracles with grace...
...Senate for only two days in 1922, but no other woman has ever sat there as a member. It is true that other women have reached the age of 91, but how many of them rise at 6 a. m., manage a 600-acre plantation and write letters to newspapers flaying politicians, bankers? Last week in the Atlanta Constitution, alert Georgians noticed a letter from Mrs. Felton. Said she: "As an old widow, lacking only a little more than eight years of the century mark, I thank you for the editorial...
Friends of President Ignatz Moscicki of Poland have a tactful way of saying that "Pictures really don't do justice to his appearance." Not so speak and write the President's enemies. Therefore the Government announced last week its drafting of a bill providing that "attacks on the President's personal appearance shall be punishable by imprisonment up to five years...
...history of a young writer, later turned advertising man, later turned merchant. His unimportant love affairs, his inconsequential pokings at life with a stick, fail to acquire emotional value or intensity by virtue of the magenta draperies which muffle the recital. Yet when Author Stern comes to realize that writing prose does not necessarily demand substitution of fervent ellipsis for sound and conventional grammar, she may well write a good book...
...them an injustice," he continued. "I have to fight the thing myself. Often, I go out of my way, avoiding words I would otherwise naturally use, to try not to suggest Mencken. I admire Mencken very much, but I know he has his faults. What I write, I feel to be a sincere and original effort, not an attempt to follow a path someone else has opened...