Word: written
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Thou art the man. "Colonel House asked me if I would consider going into the Cabinet. I did not take the inquiry very seriously. . . [Later] My commission had been signed, but up to that moment I had no direct word from the President, oral or written, that I was to be the Secretary of Agriculture...
George Bernard Shaw: "Stockholm despatches announce I have just been awarded the 1925 Nobel Prize for Literature.* Said I, slyly: 'I suppose it is because I wrote nothing that year.' My secretary believes the prize is for my play, Saint Joan, written in 1923. It is generally assumed that the award is made for my work as dramatist, in which I claim to be the superior of Shakespeare. But I spend more time on the prefaces to my plays than on the plays themselves, and I prefer my reputation as philsopher to that as dramatist...
...abbreviated and however disreputably tattered), places to be seen in and not to be seen in, absence from town and other critical matters. Last fortnight a little grey pamphlet made its appearance in Oxford, containing many of these old rules, resurrected from ancient domesday books and dusted off, or written freshly to meet modern conditions. The booklet was entitled Memorandum on the Conduct and Discipline of Junior Members of the University (i.e., undergraduates) and set forth...
...opening of the Yale Theater will mark the first time in history that a building constructed especially for university theatricals has been opened with a play written and staged by students. The lighting, scenic effects and designing of costumes will also be done by members of Professor Baker's department...
...special prologue for "The Patriarch" has been written by Lee Wilson Dodd, and during the summer the play itself was revised slightly according to suggestions made by the viewing committee at the trial performance. The success of Professor Baker's management at Yale will assure a capable company for the play. It has been called a difficult drama for amateur actors and the presentation will tax the skill of the Yale Thespians...