Word: written
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...suppose it would be much easier to turn the written name upside down than it would some of the sturdy Scots who rejoice to travel under...
...Britishers have a good word left for Woodrow Wilson, and the U. S. debt-collection policy is "notoriously extortionate." But, when Britons saw what Mr. Kipling had written, and learned of the wide notice taken of his lines in the U. S., particularly the phrase...
...French soil!" General John Joseph Pershing, Chairman of the American Battle Monuments Commission, quietly informed newsgatherers who sought him at his sister's house in Lincoln, Neb., last week that during his recent stay of two months in Europe he neither saw nor heard of any insults written on the white crosses over the graves of U. S. soldiers...
...Richard Mansfield's theatre one afternoon and offer that gruff celebrity a play. Mansfield commissioned him. With the aid of Silk Goshen, his mother's Jewish impresario and second husband, he spent a hermit year in a fishing colony off the Maine coast. The play was written and accepted, but what it was, except "about the Civil War," the world never knew. Mansfield died and for friendship's sake, John Lord destroyed his first play. Out of the same year, however, came a narrative poem of the sea, for which he received the International Prize...
...melodrama and farce comedies for Broadway, not to be flippant but in all honest gusto. And it was then that he pursued and married Bernice Harden, icy and feline. After he had consumed the inner fire she had for him, turned openly to Eva Freyne, a hard worldling, and written his greatest book, Bernice forced him back to her and delicately smothered his life-until the War. What the War meant to him, and why he did what he did in an airplane, are his ultimate revelation, made by himself in a letter which is better read than retold...