Word: write
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...Headlines Chairman George Woodward Wickersham of the President's Commission on law-enforcement begged the editors to stand firmly behind the Prohibition laws so long as they remained on the statute books. No newsman. Chairman Wickersham exhibited special interest in the task of the green-visored copyreaders who write a newspaper's headlines. "Saving the presence of this distinguished audience," said he, "I sometimes wonder if, after all, the most important of all these [newsmen] is not the man who writes the headlines. . . . After all is said and done, his is the work that reaches every eye. Where...
When Author Morison was a young man (he is now 45), much interested in the historical figure of Jesus, he was not satisfied with "its overgrowth of primitive beliefs and dogmatic suppositions, planned to write a book giving the true history as well as he could reconstruct it, of Jesus' trial, crucifixion, death. When he came to write the book, his investigations and deductions led him to a different interpretation from the one he had in mind. His problem finally resolved itself into the title of his book: who moved the stone from Jesus' tomb? Author Morison...
Once in a long while appears a book which was evidently fun to write. The Selbys is of that class. A first novel, by an apparently sophisticated author, its exuberance is at times almost too much for it, but is always infectious...
...harbor, liking the excitement of closely calculated navigation under sail. From the South Seas he went through Torres Strait across the Indian Ocean, around the Cape of Good Hope, north to St. Helena, to the Cape Verde Islands (where he stayed ten months to write this book), to the Azores, and home again. He had been gone five years, had sailed almost 40,000 miles. Says he: "As the end of my voyage drew nearer a great sadness took possession of me; the cruise was soon to end, and with it the happiest period of my life. . . ." At Havre Circumnavigator...
...means rich memories. There may be those who can speak of "Professor Charles Townsend Copeland"; to his students he is forever "Copey," one of the greatest teachers who ever walked across Harvard yard. For nearly half a century "Copey" has been scolding his students and cantankerously teaching them to write good English and to love good writing: and though they never knew a more crotchety professor, they love him for his every absurdity...