Word: write
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...Pancho typifies, in the opinion of the ambassador, 'the real Mexican,' the diamond in the rough, the type of citizen representing those upon whom the future of Mexico is to be built. Pancho, who can neither read nor write, is an architect, designer, cabinetmaker and a skilled all-round artisan...
...Trespasser (TIME, Nov. 11) were surprised when she sang the tawdry theme song in a voice exceedingly pleasant. Hungarian Franz Lehar, venerable comic opera composer (The Merry Widow, Gypsy Love, The Count of Luxemburg) saw The Trespasser in Berlin. For two years he had consistently refused to write music for cinema production, but so impressed was he with the Swanson singing that last week he agreed to compose music for Queen Kelly, an unlucky Swanson vehicle- started two years ago, exhausting two directors (Von Stroheim and Goulding) and millions of dollars, still unfinished. Because in childhood an astrologer warned against...
Maxim Gorki (Alexey Maximovich Peshkov), 62, son of an upholsterer, long-time associate of social pariahs, wrote ATa Due in 1903 when his short stories had already made him a world figure and his literary friend Anton Chekhov (see p. 64 and below) had challenged him to write a good play. He is the only great prerevolutionary Russian man-of-letters who enjoys the cordiality of Soviet authorities. His latest novels are infused with Soviet doctrine. For his health, he spends the winters in Italy. He once shocked his hosts in the U. S. when it was discovered that...
Reginald Weir and Gerald Norman Jr. did not play in last week's national junior indoor tennis championship. Their applications were rejected without explanation by U. S. Lawn Tennis Association. That made the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People write a protest: "Unfair, unsportsmanlike . . .calculated to degrade the sport . . . spirit of caste and class snobbery. ..." Meanwhile, in a Manhattan armory the best white tennis players between 16 and 18 played for the championship, hitting the ball so that the shots boomed like explosions. Boys under 16 played for the boy's title, tapping their shots back...
...course we at Technology virtuously deplore the Roman attitude. Yet we wish we might write speeches as does Dr. Lowell and still be assured of large attendance at Technology athletic events, and of alumni contributions to undergraduate athletic interests. Since we are unable to do this, we must be content with the growing interest in the Greek idea...