Word: write
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...correspondence course in Versification. After a time there came a lesson on tumbling alliterative verse. This is a very peculiar form and requires a subject rather out of the ordinary. It rolls along in voluminous strides, and I was at my wit's end for something to write about. It seems to me that it was in February while reading your magazine that I chanced upon a little paragraph telling about an elephant's stampede in India. Here I thought was the longed for material for my verse, so I wrote up the incident in the required ponderous...
...hold no brief either for or against Prohibition. But I do hold a brief for this proposition: that the height of all absurdities of government regulation and tinkering was reached when a police statute was written into the Constitution. . . . If you write police regulations into that great instrument, you have drawn it down to the level of a city ordinance...
...work through churches. . . . We hold meetings and agitate through literature. The agitation rests on the basis that alcohol is a habit-forming drug and should be suppressed. . . . Sometimes we interview Senators and Representatives. . . . We don't write bills [for Congress]. . . .We obtain reports about candidates for appointments and give the President the information. . . . We never permit the League to be maneuvered into assuming responsibility for any appointee...
Playwright John Drinkwater (Abraham Lincoln, Robert E. Lee) said he would write a biography of Cineman Carl Laemmle (Universal Pictures Corp.), native of Laupheim, Germany...
...been for years as complete a teetotaler as Henry Ford. "I don't like the taste of wine," said he last week. "On the other hand I like its appearance. It is after all the essence of sunlight. But one is stimulated by one's feelings. I cannot write verses to order. I do not think any man really writes unless he is deeply stirred...