Word: writing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Said she: "I never have had to struggle to succeed in completing a book. I always have found it easy to write. Usually, I figured on twenty chapters a day and then proceeded to write one chapter a day; but sometimes there were several days between chapters...
...Shipman write this article? It was not satire. It was not research. It was not irreverence. On the contrary, it was a reverent parable which endeavored to explain how a man could be a Christian without taking the Bible literally from Genesis to Revelations...
...ballots on which the undergraduates will vote today list only four candidates, Coolidge, Davis, La Follette, and Foster. Voters may write in the names of any of the three other candidates if they so desire. The ballots must be signed for checking purposes and to prevent plural voting. The names of the voters in connection with their vote will be kept strictly confidential. Undergraduates are also requested to state in the space provided whether or not they are twenty-one years of age or over. This is for the purpose of ascertaining the percentage of eligible voters in the University...
...many interests, and one of action-thoroughly admirable. I like this recent statement of his ambitions: "I regard business as my profession, writing ,as my amusement; and it looks as if some kind of politics was going to be my duty. I have three ambitions in each sphere: To write a full Life of General Robert E. Lee; to make the best literature accessible to the poorest purse and in any language; and to do a little to help bring about the full understanding of America and the British Empire, which I regard as the biggest thing that can come...
...Wang" knowing nothing more about it than its percussive name, will find themselves in the midst of the creditor-dodging adventures of the wily but impecunious Regent of Siam. Perhaps it is unnecessary to add that the play contains nothing which will cause patriotic Siamese at Harvard to write indignant letters to the CRIMSON. A delightfully impossible potentate is pursued through two acts by mysterious, impossible emissaries of the King of Cambodia for the price of a most impossible elephant. As the potentate has not even enough credit left to pay off the messenger who brings a parcel...