Word: writings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Next day in the House of Lords Minister of Information Lord Macmillan gave out details. Of the Ministry's famed 999, some 450 staff members remained to write and distribute propaganda. The new department took over 399 censors and press relations officials. By discreetly adding these two figures, the most doddering peer could realize for himself that only about 150 of the Ministry's personnel had actually lost their jobs...
Last week the correspondents who have been raptly following the great reversals of a staggering month brought a new, sardonic note into their stories. They had something concrete to write about. There were the German-Russian division of Poland (see p. 29), Russia's quick Baltic grab that snipped off Estonia and threatened Latvia (see p. 28), the second German-Russian "friendship" and economic pact. But, as the geese flew south over the ruins of Warsaw, and ice formed on the remote Finnish lakes, a wintry blast of cold scorn crossed the Atlantic with their cables...
...defense of Warsaw, had instructed his emissaries to ask only a brief truce for the evacuation of civilians and the wounded. After this he proposed to fight on, but General Blaskowitz refused to grant such a truce, obtained the unconditional surrender of Warsaw and demanded that General Rommel write an order to the besieged fortress of Modlin, about 20 miles away, directing its surrender...
...Critic Mencken, whose ability to write at a canter while thinking at a trot made him a popular literary spectacle, first published his ambitious philological work, The American Language. Weaver, a young journalist who read it enthusiastically, put it to the proof. He sent Mencken, then editing the Smart Set magazine, a piece entitled Elegie Americaine. Excerpt...
When her publishers suggested that she write a children's book, Gertrude Stem was delighted with the idea. Many a grown-up and many a child will be delighted with the result, especially if grownups follow directions by reading it out loud-"if you have any trouble, read faster and faster." The World Is Round has 34 chapters about a little girl named Rose and her cousin Willie. Long and serious practice has given witty Miss Stem a mastery over itty language that puts most children's writers in the shade. Any child can understand such information...