Word: write
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...Governor Huey Parham Long, the State's 36-year-old political dictator, went around to the Bailey home to offer condolences. When he returned to the capitol, he said to pretty little Miss Alice Lee Grosjean, his hazel-eyed, auburn-haired, 24-year-old confidential secretary: "Miss Grosjean, write out a commission appointing Miss Alice Lee Grosjean Secretary of State, effective at once." An hour later Miss Grosjean took the oath of office, telephoned her parents at Shreveport that she was "just thrilled to death." Thus did Louisiana get its first female Secretary of State (salary...
Congratulations. So glad you had the nerve to write just what you did. I am chaplain of Canyon City Post 180 at Azusa, Calif. Robert M. Dodsworth. Azusa, Calif...
Without having read the full content of the editorial I wish to commend the initiative and courage that it took to write such an editorial knowing full well that a storm of protest was sure to follow in its wake. If the people feel that a paper sponsored by Harvard University hasn't the right to handle subject matter pertaining to the American Legion they should familiarize themselves with the list of all America's glorious war dead...
...people, who would hold the attention of intelligent novel-readers or playgoers. But although the author-who also helped write the play-has reported with infinite care the humdrum speech and actions of her characters, she has failed to make any part of their dull lives seem deeply significant. If, as some critics advised, the ghastly hospital episode were omitted from the play, the drama would never reach any height at all. Roadside is written and played with intense and commendable sincerity. Playwright Lynn Riggs has written the saga of a Texas superman who wears a 10-gal. hat, bursts...
Hendrik Van Loon is plagued with large ideas. When he was eleven he started to write a Universal Encyclopedia of Historical Knowledge. A Dutchman, an escapist (says he: "Even today I know the 17th Century better than the 20th"), Van Loon long planned a life of Rembrandt, whom he considers greatest Dutchman of his time. This is it. Written in the form of the diary of Van Loon's mythical great-great-great-grandfather, an Amsterdam physician, great & good friend of Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn, the book is a voluminous (570 pages), discursive, far-from-formal narrative in which Rembrandt...