Word: written
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Root and practically every important statesman of Europe have written articles for Foreign Affairs - not the usual thoughtful "hand-out" monographs. The list of contributors includes Statesmen Herriot, Stresemann, Vandervelde, Bethlen, Masaryk, Poincare, Benes, etc. Foreign Affaires is not published for profit...
...young lady had done the right thing. That was, while only to be expected of a really good reporter, somewhat significant. She had regained her feet, brushed herself off, proceeded to the Associated Press office and written her story before thinking of smelling salts or a hot water bottle. And the young lady was "somebody," too. So newspapers published the story of her accident, complete with homilies on reportorial disregard of self, and also her picture -pretty Mrs. William (Julia Davis) Adams, daughter of onetime presidential nominee John W. Davis...
...minor poetess to accuse a minor poet of stealing her queer numbers is something again. Last week Nathalia Crane, Brooklyn child "prodigy," author of a book called Lava Lane which amazed critics by its pomposity, its facility, its jaw-dislocating decasyllabics, and by the fact that it had been written by a person not yet adolescent, wrote a letter to the editor of the New York World in which she intimated certain things about Joseph Auslander, author of Sunrise Trumpets, himself an odd wordsmith...
...from-the-Daily-News's very first assignment. He had been loitering around her hotel all afternoon only to be twice postponed, once by a French maid, now in grandiloquent handwriting. All he wanted to find out was whether or not Chicago's "Our Mary" had ever written an opera. It being his very first assignment he did not know whether "Our Mary's" alleged cold was an operatic brand of applesauce or not. He had heard that no diva ever avoided publicity and as for "Our Mary" being in bed-well, he guessed lots of people...
Chancellor Herbert S. Hadley of Washington University, onetime (1909-13) governor of Missouri: "Ill, I was unable to deliver my speech at a university club luncheon in Kansas City, Mo. But the mayor read aloud what I had written, including my endorsement of President Clarence Cook Little's (University of Michigan) plan to minimize the importance of college football by having rival universities prepare two teams apiece. Let them be called, for example, the Red team and the Blue. Let only Red meet Red and Blue meet Blue, a game at each college on the same day, 'thus...