Word: writings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Whether the Charlie Ross referred to was the famed kidnapped Philadelphia boy or a mutual acquaintance who could write imaginative reports, D. N. B. did not venture to explain. Bill Bullitt flatly denied that such a conversation had ever taken place. He admitted talking to Biddle that day over a bad connection, to get "specific and complete statements" about German bombardments in Poland, and that was all there was to it, except for Nazi "inventions...
...quietly closed that chapter last week had begun to write it in 1935, when the Senate Foreign Relations Committee drafted the first, misnamed Neutrality Act. In 1937 they had tied further hobbles on Presidential discretion. Last week, counting any sacrifice cheap that would keep the U. S. out of war, these men-consigned the freedom of the seas to the history books...
...South Africa for the London Daily Mail, was recuperating from an operation in a Copenhagen hospital. Eventually he planned to go to Moscow. Walter Duranty was in Rome. John Gunther had sailed from London, bound for Manhattan to be with his ailing wife. All three had signed to write for the North American Newspaper Alliance; and Duranty hoped he would be among the ten U. S. correspondents to be picked by the British Army Council for front-line service in France...
...identical services. In Pasadena, Calif, the president of First Trust & Savings Bank (assets: $16,331,000), tall, easy, white-haired James S. (for Smellie) MacDonnell, now 62, long ago found a way to kick his bank into the public eye. In 1917, as cashier, he won local fame by writing persuasive ads for the Liberty Loan and Red Cross drives. Since then, as president, he has sporadically taken advertising space in the Pasadena Post and Star News (morning and evening twins of conservative Pasadena Publisher Charles Henry Prisk). To write his copy, Banker MacDonnell retires to his handsome office...
...plays of Shakespeare had not been easy to write," says Mark Van Doren, "they would have been impossible. . . . The great and central virtue of Shakespeare was not achieved by taking thought, for thought cannot create a world." Having thus dismissed the academic worry about "problems" he goes on to dismiss the word "Elizabethan," never uses either word again. In 34 brief chapters (average length: 10 pages) he describes with citations, line by telling line, the world of imagination created in each of the plays...