Word: write
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...cross between poet, pirate and posturer is Gabriele d'Annunzio, snatcher of Fiume for Italy, first in the romantic hearts of millions of his countrymen. Last week, having penned such a last will and testament as only he could write, he could not resist the temptation to let Italians read it now. After briefly, dramatically bequeathing The Place of Victory (his estate on Lake Garda) to the nation, the will rambles...
...railroad wreck); "ROAST MAN" (above a hotel fire story). Indeed, it now resorts to its own back files for material. But the advertisements have retained their old aroma: marked cards, "trick" dice, "vigor" tablets for men. Typical classified advertisement of last week: "For a lovely chummy pal. write Nan Bell, National Park, N. J. (Stamp, please...
...When Yale's Sinclair Lewis was preparing to write Arrowsmith, novel of doctors and medical researchers (TIME, March 23, 1925), Dr. Paul de Kruif (Microbe Hunters, Hunger Fighters) traveled with him, gave him his scientific information. They decided to make bacteriophage Martin Arrowsmith's research goal. A climax of the story comes when the phage is tried out against an epidemic of bubonic plague. But Yale's Professor d'Herelle was not Arrowsmith's prototype. Born in Montreal (1873), he studied and worked abroad, joined Yale in 1928, speaks with a decided French accent...
There apparently is very little field for invention once a playwright has started out to write a show about a minister and a bad girl. One can generally count on a second act curtain in which the minister, having visibly weakened in his fight against the devil and his pomps during Act I, abandons himself to the delights of the flesh. Examples: Romance, Rain. The scene of Pagan Lady is laid in Florida, in a little town to which a convention of preachers has been attracted. One of the divines is Franchot Tone, a capable young man recently admitted...
...down at Yellow Tavern he was the 31-year-old Major-General commanding the cavalry and horse artillery of Lee's Army of Northern Virginia. Captain Thomason, a soldier who likes his trade, a Southerner (from Texas) whose ancestors fought the Yankees, is a good man to write about Jeb Stuart. He has done a good...