Word: writings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Covered Wagon, which cost $850,000 originally; it has been playing for almost a year in the big cities, and has not yet been released to the small town picture houses from which the bulk of the film income is received. The company's policy, however, is to write down its films mostly in their first year, and The Covered Wagon is now carried at about one-eighth of its cost...
...forty thousand words. Scientific writers, he notes, are equally reluctant to go to the trouble of condensing and reducing their material to this easily readable size. But a scientific book of seventy-five thousand words is rather a ponderous thing for the public. Of course, many perhaps most scientists write for their colleagues; in so doing they must present a great deal of evidence to absolve them from the drendful accusation of superficiality or chariatanry, but after all, the public deserves some consideration. The average adult is genuinely interested in history, in science, in everything which can be shown...
...younger Johnson has written many novels, countless short stories, a play and other types of literary fodder. Those who suspected him of writing Flaming Youth could not very well have known his conservative habits. To see him in golf clothes is to be assured that he never could have indulged in the frankly disturbing pages of that sexed masterpiece. Incidentally, when I discovered who actually did write it the other day, I had a bad half hour...
Julien Bezard: My Class in Composition. A teacher's diary showing how French boys learn to write...
When Dr. Straton was offered the opportunity to attend the Dempsey-Carpentier fight, and write his impression for a news agency which guaranteed not to cut his article, and to give it circulation in over 600 daily newspapers, he saw an opportunity to preach a sermon. His report of that encounter was widely read, and provoked national comment, for among the charges he brought against the exhibition were that it was founded on fraud and dishonesty, and that it was similar to the gladitorial fights which debauched the Romans and ruined Rome...