Word: writings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Fzig, the Corridor, a protectorate over Poland. Then he retired to write out his answer. It was handed to Sir Nevile later in the day: "Your Excellency informs me . . . that you will be obliged to render assistance to Poland. . . . I . . . assure you that it can make no change in the determination of the Reich Government. . . . I have all my life fought for Anglo-German friendship. The attitude adopted by British diplomacy . . . has, however, convinced me of the futility of such an attempt...
Earlier Men Sirs: Most people have felt the urge to write their Congressmen or a "Voice of the People" to comment on passing events. What more apt writers of another day might have said today is pleasant conjecture...
...anguish of mind was not so great, however, that he could not find time to write one more book (bringing his total, including the six volumes of his masterpiece, Marlborough, a biography of his famed warrior ancestor, to 19); to write articles, lecture, gamble, and swell his income to around $100,000 a year, to potter around his estate at "Chartwell," where he relaxes by putting up small brick buildings-he once belonged to a bricklayers' union-to play a little polo, paint tolerable landscapes which he exhibited under the name of "Charles Marin," and to organize a group...
...father and was packed off with a string of small papers, most of them in the northwest, which became the Scripps League. The Scripps League is now run by his two sons, strapping Edward Wyllis Scripps and lanky James G. Jr. The Scripps boys take themselves seriously, used to write a weekly bulletin called PEP for their staffs, have paid such low wages that once when a publisher begged a raise for a $28-a-week business manager, Jim Scripps wrote back: "Do not think it advisable at this time to disturb salaries in the higher brackets...
...Howard used to say that he "grew up in a mess of books . . . fumbled around for some kind of artistic expression." His fumbling took him to the University of California (where he wrote plays), to George Pierce Baker's 47 Workshop at Harvard (where he studied how to write them), to the New Republic, to Hearst's International, to the old Life. In 1925 his first Broadway success, They Knew What They Wanted, won him the Pulitzer Prize. Versatile, systematic, a prodigious worker (he sometimes kept three jobs going at once), he spent some of his time...