Word: writing
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Eight years ago Whitney turned over the directorship to Dr. Coolidge, since then with immense pleasure has puttered around on his own experiments. He is 72. Asked recently whether he would write a book, he said he was too busy, would write one when...
...Wodehouse at the end of October. Wodehouse was wearing grey flannels, a tweed jacket. Asked if there was anything he wanted, P. G. said: "You know I write. Well, I find it difficult to write in a room with 60 other people. Could you arrange to get me a room alone?" The head of the prison said it could be arranged...
Wodehouse is allowed to write three letters, four post cards monthly. He is said to be getting all the working supplies he needs, to be writing a novel. What the novel is about Prisoner Wodehouse did not tell...
...regime of half rations, double heavy labor, solitary confinement. Rock-breaking, roadbuilding, ditch-digging, harsh treatment are fast wearing him out. He has not been beaten, but has told his wife on the rare visits she is permitted that he has seen others beaten unconscious. "When I write the address, 'Concentration Camp, Sachsenhausen,' " said one daughter, "then I am always very proud...
Knollenberg experienced no unusual difficulties until 1775. In that year Washington took the revolutionary limelight, began to write letters and make comments on which classic U. S. historians have relied for their record and interpretation of much Revolutionary history. To historians like John Fiske, George Bancroft, Worthington Chauncey Ford, Paul Leicester Ford, Washington's word was almost sacrosanct. Reluctantly, Historian Knollenberg concluded that it wasn't. Yet others went on believing Washington. To correct ("in some measure") this prejudice, Knollenberg wrote Washington and the Revolution...