Word: manuscript
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...greatest speeches, though any other orator might well have envied it. His courage and his eloquence shine brightest in adversity. When he first appeared before Congress, on Dec. 26, 1941, Allied prospects were dim and the U.S. was reeling under the first shock of war. Then, speaking from manuscript, he tingled flesh and tightened throats with the indomitable defiance of his ringing phrases...
George Dixon, for the umpteenth time, was telling some 4,000,000 readers a typical tarradiddle. Actually the Adams papers are owned and managed by the Adams Manuscript Trust. MacLeish negotiated for the loan of the Declaration through the Massachusetts Historical Society. It is in John Adams' hand, not Jefferson's. It was insured for $5,000, taken to Washington by Julian Boyd, Princeton University librarian, accompanied by a Library of Congress guard. There was no correspondence between MacLeish and the Adams family. There was no penny postcard, no $25 insurance-in fact, until Dixon made...
From Gertrude Stein, doggedly pursuing her own literary life in France, came a manuscript, Mrs. Reynolds, to Manhattan Publisher Bennett Cerf. She had mailed it to a friend in Sweden, who got it to the U.S. by mysterious means-perhaps by diplomatic pouch, hinted Cerf, to spare suspicious censors the task of trying to decode it. The publisher said .he looked at the manuscript, could make nothing of it, thought it could probably be read from either end, decided to publish...
Also ready for a publisher (Alfred A. Knopf) was thrice-married Cinemactress Joan Bennett's manuscript, How To Be Attractive. She summed it up: "An attractive woman is one who grows smart instead...
Madame Chiang took her time. She had made many speeches in her life, but never one quite so important as the one the words of which were spread out on the little, mahogany manuscript-stand that had been borrowed from the Senate for her. She had spent weeks thinking about this speech. China was in it. Her husband was part of it. Her life, her acquaintance with America, her identity with her own land, had gone into...