Word: written
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...often amusing conversationalists, particularly when stimulated by a masculine audience or by the fact that they are wearing new hats. But if the badinage across a tea-table were carried on in black and white; if ivory tablets were provided for the composition of mots in pencil, would the written small-talk charm? Would it scintillate and glitter? No, thought the editors of the Harvard Crimson (undergraduate daily). To test the well-known fact that a woman's wit is quenched by the sight of a sheet of paper like a candle by a wet snuffer, they last week...
General Sarrail's official written report of the bombardment of Damascus reached Paris last week and estimated the casualties as follows: Europeans, none; French soldiers, 10; Revolutionaries, 200;* Armenians (killed by the insurgents...
...subject of puppy love is usually smothered in laughter. The acuteness of youthful suffering is dismissed by the world because the suffering is temporary. Youth forgets its love affairs, but the fire burns deep. Perhaps in its very intensity it burns itself out. Young Woodley, written by John Van Druten (an English schoolmaster), depicts the time when the blaze is fiercest. Young Woodley has fallen in love with the pretty wife of his mathematics tutor...
Bobbed Hair was written by "20 famous novelists," each doing one installment. As might be expected, it turned out to be an incoherent hurrah about the modern girl, but incoherence is so often a feature of motion picture plots that the fault is not devastatingly apparent...
...every one take up again his 'Tom Brown at Rugby' and reread the account of the game between 'School' and School-House' and then ask himself if he can possibly imagine that account, or anything like it, being written of the present American college game. That game was true sport...