Word: written
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Famed naturalist, sportsman, associate editor of Field & Stream. Many the good bass yarn (sea bass) has he written...
General John Joseph Pershing, U. S. A., made a new kind of announcement last week-a publisher's announcement. He had not written a War novel, nor an autobiography, nor even a volume of poems. But the American Battle Monument Commission, of which he is chairman, had completed its official guide to and history of the campaigns of the A. E. F. The book was ready for the public at 75? the copy. Address: Superintendent of Public Documents, Government Printing Office, Washington...
...feet of solid history," relics dating from the Paleolithic period (with a gap from Saxon times to the 13th Century) to the present. ¶Workmen digging for foundations for the new Bank of England building turned up the leather soles of Roman women's shoes. Newspaper stories were written to the effect that styles have changed little...
...checks) want. Long-maned poets, arriving to discover how to make poetry pay, will be told that poetry never pays.* People who "think they would like to write" will find themselves rudely face to face with a pencil and a sheet of blank pa per. People who have written a lot, and badly, will be asked to stop writing. Those who have the "literary impulse" and show some signs of obeying that impulse successfully will be instructed how to obey it profitably. The aim is to save a writer five years, commer cially. There will also be much inspirational...
...commonplace with loving care and presents it with an expression combining sturdy faith and "lest we forget" to people who only get confused when they read "clever" writers. How truly useful this ingenuousness is can be estimated almost mathematically. The "American Impressions" in his new book* were written for the London Times. To U. S. readers it will seem that Mr. Noyes "burbles" a bit, but burbling helps the world go round and for this particular kind of burbling, there is no better burbling ground than the London Times. Also, Mr. Noyes is awfully nice...