Word: writings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When Roman Catholics think that their faith has been flouted or their rights have been invaded, they get mad, form picket lines, write letters to editors, buttonhole legislators, in short, act like the political citizens they are. Protestants, whose aggregate weight is much greater, appear by comparison either meek or musclebound. But last week in Philadelphia a Protestant group took off its coat, rolled up its sleeves and displayed capable biceps. A meeting of 500 Protestant ministers and laymen gave enthusiastic endorsement to a League for Protestant Action. Among other things, the League announced its belief in the proposition that...
...people to her apartment. She seldom talks anything but world affairs and seldom stops talking them. Her husband has been heard to shush her after hours of it. When she is alone again late at night, if she is worked up about something, she will sit down and write a column at white heat, and these columns are usually her best...
...comely campus on a lake, and of their young woman president, Mildred Helen McAfee, 39. Missouri-born and Vassar-educated, Miss McAfee taught in progressive schools, was dean of women at Oberlin before she became Wellesley's president in 1936. Tall, athletic, curly-haired, President McAfee likes to write detective stories in her spare time...
Though this six-foot, bearded, spinsterish Englishman never married, he was fortunate in the young men on whom he sometimes girlishly innocent crushes. Frank Lushington became an important judge. Chichester Fortescue (Lear liked to write his name "40scue") became Lord Carlingford. Thomas George Baring became the Earl of Northbrook and Viceroy of India. Evelyn Baring became the Earl of Cromer, the "Maker of Modern Egypt." To these playful satraps of the expanding British Empire, Lear liked to write such pre-Joycean letters as this one to Evelyn Baring...
...worked on his illustrations for Tennyson's poems (his musical setting to Tennyson's Tears, Idle Tears, sung in a high thin voice, was long a tear-jerker). He was a prodigious letter writer, in Rome used to rise at four or five o'clock, write 35 letters before breakfast. In his Villa Tennyson at San Remo he died...