Word: write
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...great poet and asked him to suggest a new one. The poet advised them to keep the one they had. They did. Unlike the Medicine Hatters, a large block of the citizenry of Linoleumville, Staten Island (pop.: 2,200), dissatisfied with their town's name, chose not to write to a famed poet for advice but to settle the question by ballot. Last week they did. Proposed were ten names (although any citizen was privileged to suggest any other name he fancied): Linoleumville, Travis, Melvin, Victory Heights, Scotstown, Berkley, Long Neck, Travisville, Mellburg, Carteret...
...objection to his reading the story before it was sent, explaining that he did not desire in any way to limit me and would gladly waive the request if I considered it improper. . . . I suggested that if he could find a Latin script typewriter I would write the cable immediately in his office. . . . There followed the extraordinary procedure of Stalin personally conducting a search for the typewriter (and waiting) after . . . employes had departed for their suppers, for a reporter to finish his story...
When Captain Roberts went to his lonely blockhouse on the Afghan border he left another man's wife behind him. She did not write; he wondered why. When Lieutenant Nicholson came to join him, Roberts found out the reason: his second-in-command was now first with the lady. They became mortal enemies, but then there was a border uprising. Nicholson was badly wounded, and Roberts brought him in at the risk of his own life. They shook hands and agreed the woman was not worth it. On leave together (by now they were inseparable) they met her again...
...only one which is not living on a past reputation; the only one, along with Italy, which does not demolish, but knows, on the contrary, how to construct." So says M. Morand, who has visited Manhattan four times, once for two months, and has seen enough to write a book about...
...United States Department of the Interior, through its "Office of Education," has been making a survey of the field of journalism, with the purpose of "giving the opportunities and limitations of writing as a career. There are more than 28,000 men and 5,000 women who write for 20,000 newspapers, magazines, trade journals and similar publications--nearly 2,300 of these being daily papers with a circulation of 44,000,000 copies. This means that one person in every three buys a daily newspaper--or, omitting children under under fourteen years of age, one in every...