Word: written
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...present-day population of the U. S. House seats are still held on the basis of the 1910 Census. When the House met this month, it was announced that a bloc of 100 members would, if necessary, filibuster to put through some Reapportionment bill, presumably the long-shelved measure written by Chairman E. Hart Fenn (Connecticut) of the Census Committee to reapportion on the basis of the 1930 census (TIME...
...course famed and lovable H. G. Wells has not written any "Book on Loneliness." The jest went deeper than that. Its sly allusion-perfectly understood by almost every Briton, except innocent old ladies-was to a new and sensationally suppressed novel, The Well of Loneliness, by Miss Radclyffe Hall...
After hearing the appeal, Sir Thomas Inskip ruled, in effect, that British police shall pounce upon, confiscate and destroy all unsold copies of The Well of Loneliness. Said Sir Thomas, hotly, to reporters: "I consider this the most subtle, demoralizing, corrosive and corruptive book ever written...
...have studied abnormal psychology for 13 years, as a member of the Council for the Society for Psychical Research, and as a Fellow of the Royal Zoological Society. Those who read my book need not be told that there is nothing salacious in it, and that it is written very gravely and without offense. . . . When I speak of female inverts I do not mean perverts. . . . Many times the invert is a great artist, highly sensitive and intelligent. She would contribute much to society if she were not despised and abused...
...faithful actress cannot act well when her part is falsely written. But she can pronounce her words and she does not need to make every line a dirge, humming or whistling it. Actress Barrymore said "mush" meaning "must," "wannering" meaning "wandering," and dropped all final dentals. Her voice became deeper as she grew older and she developed a crouch; otherwise her actions did not change. But near the end, the hungry little children in the orphanage cried "Hurrah for the Mother Superior" and, a few minutes later, so did the audience...