Word: aphorist
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Earl Derr Biggers, 48, humorist, novelist, playwright, scenario-writer; of heart failure; in Pasadena. His first novel, Seven Keys To Baldpate, was his most famed. His best known fictional character: Charlie Chan, Chinese detective and aphorist...
...already know, gives details as positively and clearly as the motorist's Blue Book. "Women invented love, and men fidelity. No! this is not a paradox. The strongest man hides within him a shamefaced sentimentalist, and the weakest woman a stern realist." Author Paul Géraldy, 45, aphorist. playwright, poet, sometimes called "the de Musset of the 20th Century," is author of Toi et Moi, once largest-selling book of poetry. He has seen many a play of his produced at the Comedie FranÇaise. His wife (stage name: "Mme Lubin") is a onetime opera singer...