Word: writings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...would have been silly to write a Who's Who In Mexico last week, because in the U. S. were...
...BORN FEB 1 1909 ATTENDED PROFESSIONAL CHILDREN'S SCHOOL WHEN YOUNG SENT TO BENNETTS BECAUSE SOME KIND WEALTHY LADIES THOUGHT I NEEDED FRESH AIR LIKE TO STUDY GREATEST AMBITION TO LIVE IN ITALY IN A COLD GARRET WRITE BAD VERSE AND DRINK YELLOW WINE WHEN I'M OLD WOULD RATHER TRAVEL A LOT DOING ODD JOBS THAN BE A DEPENDABLE INGENUE BUT I LOVE THE THEATRE ANYWHERE WON'T MAKE MUCH MONEY BUT MAYBE I'LL WRITE STOP THE UNIVERSE AROUND US A GRAND BOOK A FAREWELL TO ARMS THE MOST BEAUTIFUL NOVEL THINK THE MOTION PICTURE A GRAND MEDIUM...
...company although its earnings for this year would be as large as during 1928. Yet canny Londoners, awaiting the auditor's report, were inclined to believe Viscount St. Davids' attack upon his brother had been more than a family squabble. For Lord Kylsant's official statement included the phrases: "write off . . . for estimated shrinkage (under present conditions in heavy British industries) of investments in other than shipping companies." These "investments" were guessed to be the base of Viscount St. Davids' anger, were seen to be unwise and unwarranted uses...
...right and fear no man. Don't write and fear no Congressman. So might Sugar Lobbyist Herbert Conrad Lakin of Manhattan have paraphrased the adage when, again last week, he faced the Senate Lobby Committee. President of Cuba Co. with its $165,000,000 invested in sugar plantations, mills, railroads, Lobbyist Lakin went to Washington the first of the year to work against an increased sugar tariff. Cuban planters chipped in to pay his expenses. President Machado of Cuba blessed his activities. So disarmingly had he told his story before that the Lobby Committee praised him for his "frankness...
...such fortunes are fictitious, reported Albert Halstead, U. S. Consul-General in London. "There is practically no estate of any size in chancery. The tragedy of the estate questions is that so many who write are manifestly people of little education . . . in straitened circumstances . . . who have found the suggestion of wealth most encouraging...