Word: authorative
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Young Dr. Merrill Moore of Boston is known as a psychiatrist, semiprofessional swimmer and author of 25,000 good and bad sonnets. With all his zest for life, Dr. Moore is most interested in the problem of suicide, has collected many scientific facts on this phenomenon. Last week in The New England Journal of Medicine he discussed the agent most commonly used by would-be suicides: iodine...
Kirtley F. Mather will speak at the opening ceremony Friday evening. Other speakers will be Harry A. Over-street, professor of Philosophy at the College of the City of New York, and author of the best selling books "Influencing Human Behavior" (1925), "About Ourselves" (1927), and "A Guide to Civilized Leisure" (1934), and Charles S. Bolster, of Cambridge, president of the new Center. While admission to this convocation is free, tickets should be secured in advance from the office in Brattle Hall...
Dealing with the story of early New Amsterdam life as seen through the eyes of Washington Irving, "Knickerbocker Holiday" is delightful only so long as the author contents himself with a certain ingratiating naivete; unfortunately Mr. Anderson was not content to leave the pleasant subtlety of his first act as the underlying essence of the whole production. Evidently he did not think his audience would enjoy drawing their own parallel between the pleasantly autocratic regime of Peter Stuyvesant and the government of today; before the comedy has run its course, the simile becomes more and more obvious...
...Holland's leading feminist and most popular novelist, is a long (738 pages), crowded, historical romance told against an 18th-Century background of the fight between the House of Orange and the Dutch democrats. Like many a present-day historical novel, this one is a tribute to the author's talents as a researcher rather than as a novelist; like her U. S. contemporaries, she lays history and romance in layers as neat as layer cake...
...House of Lords, the highest legal tribunal of England. He was formerly Master of the Rolls and before becoming a Law Lord was a Judge of the High Court of Justice, King's Bench Division. He has been chairman of the Committee on Law Revision and has been the author of numerous articles on current English law. The English peer was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, and holds honorary LL.D.'s from the Universities of Birmingham and London...