Word: written
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last year: "Sergei Yessenin has just written me that he has gone into the Caucasus to become a bandit. ... He writes that he is going to be a robber for the thrills. ... He wants to write poetry about robbery, and feels that he must gain experience as a bandit...
...face of it, the letter seemed only another of Carol's innumerable declarations that he has long wanted to abandon royal state and live as a commoner with Zyzis. In 1919 he wrote a similar epistle, and he is thought to have written many before and since. What startled the world was that this time King Ferdinand, instead of hushing up the offer of abdication, rushed it through the Crown Council and ordered the Roumanian Parliament to convene for the purpose of declaring Carol's baby son, Michel, the Crown Prince...
Paul Whiteman, expansive Lord High Conductor of U. S. jazz, last week repressed his exuberant instruments heroically. He calmed the mourning, muted trumpet, put brakes on the slide trombone, and made them all tell stories. One story was written by Deems Taylor, jazz-appreciating classicist ? the story of circus day in a one-cylinder town. The other story went deeper, or bravely tried to. It was by rhapsodic George Gershwin, to whom jazz comes as readily as a new suit to a chamelon. It was of a murder in a Harlem speakeasy: love, passion, hate and a dark...
...Faith is simply a belief in the perfectibility of human nature through human intelligence?or, in two words, faith in man, neutrality towards a possible Supreme Power, denial of Christianity. But Mr. Foster would be the last to suggest that his book is a contribution to philosophy. It is written obviously for laymen by a layman...
...first of a series of articles to be published in the Boston Herald each Sunday by different college comic publications, beginning next week, will be written by the Harvard Lampoon, it was announced yesterday by A. G. Cooke, '26, president of the Lampoon...