Word: written
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Appeared in London the second tome of King Edward VII's biography, written by the late Sir Sidney Lee at the express command of King George. These books, both enormous, tell the whole story of Edward's life from the time he was a boy to his death...
...Nathan has increased steadily since they formed their literary vaudeville team. Readers of the American Mercury, of which Mr. Mencken is editor, Mr. Nathan, dramatic reviewer, have smirked at the pair with the nervously good-natured tolerance that a stupid child affects when he sees "Billy is a fool" written upon the school wall. Intelligent critics realize the formula upon which these angry, mocking mimes base their performance. The grotesqueries which they flay are often genuine; but most intelligent people find more important things to think about than such grotesqueries. The admirers of the team of Mencken & Nathan are generally...
...triumphs of his mind, he said: "God will forgive me?that is His business!" Admired by many while he lived, he was never so sympathetically, hence so completely, comprehended then as he is now by Biographer Browne, who, with the able research assistance of Elsa Weihl, has written a book, more arrowy in its understanding than his famed This Believing World...
Essays to be written in the examination will be judged on the extend of knowledge and understanding of current events shown by the students. While heretofore only one prize has been allotted to each university, it has been decided that in order to stimulate greater interest in the competition, three prizes will be awarded in each institution, a first prize of $150, a second prize of $75, and a third prize of $25. In addition the winner of the first award is presented with a medal...
...following article on football at the University of Indiana was written for the Crimson by B. H. Long, Indiana '26, who is now in his second year at the Harvard Law School...