Word: write
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Career: Born in a log cabin, he lost his father at the age of three. His mother, an illiterate woman, carried him to Campbell, Minn, at the age of six. At nine he went to work on the streets. At twelve he could neither read nor write. A corner brawl caught the attention of a passing schoolteacher who was impressed by the lad's ferocity and ignorance, advised education. He entered school, moving from town to town with his toiling mother, gathered and sold junk to make ends meet. He put himself through the University of Minnesota...
Curious people who wish to see so magnetic a personality had best not write for an appointment. In his book-littered bachelor quarters he piles the day's mail, unopened, on a great oak table. Over this a newspaper is spread on which the following day's mail goes. This unique filing system usually collapses after a few days; the mail is thrown in the wastebasket by a despairing housekeeper...
Dear Old England. A group of English aristocrats impoverished by the War and living in abandoned tramcars on the Sussex Downs, like dispossessed peacocks trying to thrive in old packing boxes on an empty lot, would be sufficient suggestion for almost any kind of play one might want to write. Henry Francis Maltby found fun in the predicament of these elegants; he wrote a comedy about them which, whether or not they ever existed, greatly amused London, is now on view in Manhattan...
...shows-a U. S. pressagent record. Business associates claim that he has the widest U. S. acquaintance. Even before the Circus got to town, his arrival was the signal for his friends of the press to wax waggish. He did not mind, for his policy is: let the newsmen write anything they like about...
...artist. Authors Hum and Root claim now that much of it is false, base their statements on a manuscript collection made by the late Hon. May Burrell, wife of the Hon. Willoughby Burrell, daughter of a mathematics professor at Trinity College. Dublin. Mrs. Burrell had herself intended to write a Wagner biography, accumulated a vast amount of invaluable literature to that end. But for the 30-odd years since her death it has lain neglected in a safe-deposit vault, some of the papers found only recently in an old clothes hamper. It is with the support of this important...