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...down he returned to the U. S., took up writing in place of painting. Years of struggle were crowned with the publication of Cavolo Repeana, a recipe for stuffed cabbage published in Good Housekeeping, over his wife's signature. His first novel, The Lay Anthony, brought more satisfactory literary acclaim. Now, a familiar U. S. Literary Figure he lives in the old stone Dower House at West Chester, Pa., goes to an office in the business section of the town to write his books. Some of them: The Three Black Pennys, Java Head, Cytherea, Balisand, The Party Dress, The Limestone...
...elect a commander-in-chief. While this agitation was in the air, Commander Waters staged a coup d'état. He and his erstwhile "staff" drove out to muddy Anacostia in the Waters "official car." Mounting a shack, he harangued his audience into re-electing him commander by acclaim. Then he returned to B. E. F. headquarters on 11th Street, Southeast, posted sentries as a precaution against a counter coup by his political enemies. That night Commander Waters' driver reported that the official car had been fired upon...
...Great Britain the entire Press, except one or two die-hard mouthpieces of the Army & Navy, hailed the President's proposal with acclaim. It was promptly endorsed by the Labor Party (Opposition). The Government remained noncommittal, however, even after Sir John Simon had returned from Switzerland and conferred at length with Acting Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin, Leader of the Conservative Party which has a huge majority in Parliament...
...when its 16th Annual Conference of 47 nations occupied the handsome hall just built by the City of Geneva for plenary sessions of the Disarmament Conference (last week sitting in committees). Conscious of their importance, the 324 labor delegates marched bravely in and elected by acclaim as their president a onetime Ontario telegraph keyman, Senator Gideon Decker Robertson, Canadian Labor Minister in the Conservative Cabinet of rich Premier Richard Bedford Bennett...
...Author. Since 1915 a clerk in the post office of his native city, Drammen, Author Christiansen has had long to wait for anything more satisfying than critical acclaim. His first novel The Victor won the critics, sold only a few hundred copies. Subsequent plays and novels got high praise, but sales stayed low. Now all Scandinavia is reading Two Living and One Dead. Flawless in outline, crystal-clear as a Norwegian icicle, it deals with psychological subtleties at high tension with almost miraculous precision, without any witchcraft other than an immaculate literary conscience and a knifelike style...