Word: written
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Perkins' own words the most lasting of all his hobbies. Perhaps his greatest interest was in the collection of books connected either through ownership or authorship with one man--Coleridge. During the winter of 1924-25 he had already given a rather large number of his books, annotated of written by the poet, to the library, writing at about the same time, "I much fear you will be disappointed in the quality of the Coleridge items, but shall be a very happy person indeed were any of this material to prove of the smallest help to Professor Lowes...
...Franco-U.S. tariff dispute (TIME, Sept. 19 et seq.) came to a definite if temporary head last week when Premier Raymond Poincare, functioning as Minister of Finance, caused a note to be written to Washington expressing France's willingness to revert to the status quo ante for U. S. imports pending the negotiation of a new commercial treaty...
...Hanover, N. H., to a rapt gathering of Dartmouth undergraduates, the Guild raised its Manhattan curtain on a troupe of Negroes. Meeting the ceaseless mutter that the Guild worships at the shrine of foreign playwriting, the first selection went completely native. It is set at Charleston's docks, written in Negro patois, deals with purely Negro problems (as opposed to most plays and books about Negroes, which struggle with race prejudice and intermarriage), is played almost wholly by a company colored without burnt cork...
...19th Hole. Frank Craven has written a golf comedy. He introduces a hero who is chiefly interested in stained glass; introduces this hero to a bag of golf clubs; proceeds to develop the domestic difficulties of this hero. Soon a menace appears in the form of a domineering colonel, to whom the dreamy hero refuses to pay a golf wager because he thinks the Colonel cheated. Actor Craven plays more craftily than he writes. The loudest laugh of the piece greets Mr. Craven's plaintive protest that he did not vilify the Colonel; simply said he was sunk...
...complete list of the correspondents includes Greece, Egypt, India, and Chile. Every noteworthy company engaged in practical transportation by air in the two hemispheres has been reached in the search for operating statistics and organization data. In addition to this thorough canvass of aviation corporations, the Business School has written to the American chambers of Commerce in Athens, Brussels, Tokyo, Lisbon, Calcutta, Rio de Janciro, and every other important city in the world...