Word: authorative
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Raymond Dennett '36, Graduate Secretary of Phillips Brooks House. It is expected that the questionnaire sent to all tutors concerning progress made so far in the teaching will be discussed. Definite plans for the conference groups have been laid. Kenneth P. Kempton '12, instructor in English and prominent author, is expected to head the English group, composed of 12 tutors and an equal number of tutees. Other groups are planned in Economics and History...
Chief merit of Garland of Bays is that Author Jones makes both periods equally lively...
...more primitive days of the Republic . . . ? waxwork figure of a Puritan boy, out of the social museum that is rural Vermont." and remained throughout his career a 100-year time lag personified. Most of the evidence-Coolidge's penny-pinching, picklish personality, Yankee cunning, sentimentality, provincialism-fits Author White's thesis. Placed against the teeming, speculative post-War U. S., Coolidge offers one of the most ironic studies in U. S. politics and Author White makes the most of the contrasts...
Other biographers, unable to understand how Coolidge got into the White House in the first place, have emphasized "Coolidge luck." Author White explains it more intelligibly in terms of post-War psychology, which, unwilling to face the realities of a changed world, picked Coolidge as the best equipped to lead an escape to the past...
...entered the field of spectacular motion pictures very shortly after Cecil B. DeMille's "Ten Commandments" appeared. "Scaramouche" and "The Magician" were other films directed by Ingram about this time. The "Four Horsemen" was made after the war novel of the same name published in 1918 by the Spanish author Vincente Blasco Ibanez. Rudolph Valentino, called the greatest cinematic drawing card of all time, plays the starring role...