Word: written
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Senate, is almost as empty of reality as the cook books and tracts that filibusterers read into the Congressional Record. Even as a powerhouse of arguments, this Congressional debate was of little or no importance. The Washington public stayed away from a mere set of written speeches; waited for the sparring to come when such phrase-fisted boxers as Missouri's Clark and Montana's Wheeler clash with South Carolina's Byrnes and Nevada's Pittman over the bill itself...
...looked with misgivings on the Axis. As the Axis became more unpopular, the Throne gained in popularity until there became noticeable a resurgence of monarchist feeling in Italy. When "Viva Il Duce" is now painted on the walls, the words "Viva Il Re!" are more than likely to be written beside...
Editor Mencken printed it. Weaver received $11.25. Year and a half later, Weaver published a book of verse written in the same lingo, which went through seven printings in its first year. Weaver followed this smash hit with three books of verse; but their novelty progressively dwindled, and so did their popular appeal...
...Champion. Edna St. Vincent Millay was born a native-daughter of Maine, but she early began to crow like a child of the universe. At 19 she had already written Renascence, a long poem on cosmic possibilities that put contemporary poetry-scouts in a dither of great expectations. When Millay settled down in Greenwich Village, after graduating from Vassar in 1917, she was widely accepted by literary professionals as the most fascinating prodigy in America...
...Gertrude Stein at Bilignin, a village near Belley, where Miss Stein has her country house. Gertrude "likes Rose's way of thinking because Rose helped her remember "all the things that troubled my own child hood." Gertrude read most of the book to Rose as it was being written, translating into French as she went along, and Rose suggested numerous incidents. Says Gertrude" "Rose likes her book; she likes her book very much." Gertrude also says it will be a short war, and she is not planning to do any ambulance work this time...