Word: write
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...fast as he could write the young man and his advisers drafted a message to the people of the U. S., cabled it to their revolutionary representative in New York...
Last fortnight, after having thought the matter over for a year, Novelist Grey decided that he had been insulted by this refusal, so grossly insulted that he would never go back to Arizona again. He said he would not even write any more of his famed Arizona stories (Under the Tonto Rim, Roping Lions in the Grand Canyon, etc.). He charged neighboring hunters with spreading untrue, derogatory tales about his sportsmanship. Said he: "In twelve years my whole bag of game has been five bears, three bucks and a few turkeys. I have written 15 novels with Arizona background. Personally...
Above all else, there is charm in this book, at once tangible, personal and yet indefinite, so unobtrusively is it blended with the subject at hand. The author is avowedly writing about some of the English. For that reason he does not try to tell about all the English, nor even all about the English. In his habitat of Romley he finds by-ways, people, institutions, manners, ideas, ideals, and vices enough to write a book. Consequently his opinions are not violent, his progress leisurely, his attitude sympathetic...
...long poems Masefield tells of her first voyage and her last; in many shorter lyrics sings the praises of the Wanderer and her vanished kind. Always a competent narrative poet, the ageing Masefield embroiders fewer purple passages, forges no mighty lines. But he can still write a chantey which cries for music. The first verse...
Most Freshmen have a secret yearning to write themes on "How to Sail a Boat", "Why the United States Should Preserve Her, Forests", and .... yes, "How to Write a Theme." All in all, it's small wonder that English A professors to quote another theme, become at times "non-plushed...