Word: written
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sirs: . . . My reason for writing this letter is to commend you on the publishing of medical subjects that should be of interest to everyone, and to answer a letter written by Mrs. H. S. Lanpher of Providence, R. I., and published in TIME, March 1, objecting to the publishing oi medical topics...
...Court,** he is now and always has been regarded as one of the liberals of the Court. He has never been known as an old fogy. He is no stickler over small technicalities, not one to place the tradition of the law above the majesty of justice. He has written: "Law is not a brooding omnipresence in the sky." With the influx of liberal members to the Court in recent years and his contributions to jurisprudence, he has been more and more recognized in the law schools not only of this country but of England. Last fall Chief Justice Taft...
...Schacht was obliged to admit that he had written the song-poem in question, that he had sold it to the publisher many years ago "for a song." None the less he started suit "to protect the dignity of the Reichsbank"?demanded that The Minstrel's Waltz be suppressed once and for all. Shrewd lawyers opined that the suit will certainly defeat its aim?if that be suppression of publicity...
...devote his age (he is 71) to writing and editing. Of this sort of thing he has already done a lot, being' one of the most celebrated of U. S. historians, past or present. His most extensive single editorial production was The American Nation in 28 volumes. He has written on a score of phases of U. S. history, from The Formation of the Union to A Handbook of the War (with A. 0. Lovejoy) has edited (beside the 28 volumes mentioned) over a score of volumes of historical sourcebooks, histories, lives of statesmen and the Macmillan Co.'s exhaustive...
...messenger after messenger after messenger after messenger falls swooning at the king's feet, rude soldiers in battle and Roman citizens on the streets blurt out heroic speeches tuned to the rhythm of a Cicero. It is all very exciting, but seldom convincing. One suspects that the authors have written for children, but neither jacket nor advertisements give any hint of it. The tale is admirably told for a twelve-year old; it is the kind of children's story that grown-ups might take up covertly and read to the end, with an indulgent smile at the ingenuousness...