Word: write
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...years I have been associated with some fifty teachers and administrators engaged in a study of the aims and the curricula of secondary education. Although the majority of this group are members of faculties of secondary schools, representatives of elementary and of higher education are also participating. I write with this background; but any opinions which I venture to express are personal and do not involved my colleagues in the present project of the Secondary Education Board...
...fact little to do with the Havana Post. His function is to lure more U. S. tourists, more U. S. capital to Cuba.* His method: to send writers and artists to Havana. There magnetic Publisher Carl Byoir takes them in hand, makes them see everything, turns them loose to write and draw what they please, confident that the result will be the best type of propaganda for Cuba. Publisher Byoir has frankly assumed the task of exploiting Cuba, frankly admitting that his papers will profit thereby...
While American War Mothers learn the technique of hand grenades near the graves of Belleau Wood, and while Mussolini considers the beauty of machine guns, Aristide Briand has given European diplomats another opportunity to write their names on a piece of paper. Long featured in frayed journalese as the canny apostle of the Quai D'Orsay, Briand has dragged an ancient skeleton from the diplomatic closet placarded "Pan-Europe" and rattled its bones from the lake front of Geneva to the austere marble of the Hague...
Sirs: Don't you think you stretched your imagination a little too far when you said, "Down on all fours in London last week went Japan's chief delegate to Naval Conference-" writing his report to the Emperor. Or is it your Hearst-like attempt to make it newsworthy? No Japanese goes down on fours when he is writing letters or reports, not only because it is a poor manner but mainly because it is too awkward position to write small letters. I feel sure, writing his report to his superior, Mr. Wakatsuki takes much more dignified attitude...
...Adler. Born in Odessa, Russia, in 1855, Jacob Adler became successively public official, journalist, actor in a barnstorming Jewish troupe. When he was 30 he migrated to the U. S., formed the first stock company to devote itself to serious Yiddish drama. He discovered Playwright Jacob Gordin, had him write vehicles for the troupe, among them The Wild Man. From time to time he played other engagements at home and abroad, once touring the U. S. in The Merchant of Venice, as Shylock, whose lines he spoke in Yiddish while the other actors used English. Because adler means eagle...