Word: authorative
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Brain behind the idea is an Admirable Crichton named Charles Moody, 34-year-old son of a Southampton dock superintendent, "America's foremost British Butler," editor of Staff, secretary & treasurer of the Butlers Club, author of four books 'and 80 short stories. Professionally, however, the impeccable Mr. Moody is butler to Mrs. William J. Babington Macaulay (formerly Mrs. Nicholas Frederic Brady of Manhattan and Manhasset, L. I.), wife of Eire's Minister to the Vatican...
Last week, in a novel called Seek-No-Further, Author Constance Robertson told the story of Temple Commune in Jericho Centre, N. Y. The Temple was a group of 65 farmers who worked hard all day and in the evening held canning bees and seancés. Its women wore short tunics and ankle-length bloomers instead of world's clothes: hoop skirts and petticoats. Its men feared God and would do anything in the world for old Father Swann, once he got talking. The main building where the Templers slept had an elaborate lacy cornice and rounded corners...
...Author. Constance Robertson, who has written one other novel, Enchanted Avenue and a mystery, Five Fated Letters (under the pseudonym Dana Scott), was born in the house of her grandfather, John Humphrey Noyes, founder of famed Oneida Community (1842 to 1880), one of whose concerns was breeding the Superman; consequently it was kicked around by public opinion till it was changed to a corporation which now manufactures silverware. The Templers are as authentic as a composite photograph. Everything in Seek-No-Further but the happy ending actually happened in one of the two dozen or so 19th Century communities which...
...baseball, the social ostracism that followed her brilliant performance in the Northern Ohio Debating League, was cut out for trouble. Not entirely given over to girlish recollections, My Sister Eileen is weakest when it approaches slapstick, as in accounts of Father McKenney's washing-machine business; funniest when Author McKenney recalls the simpler sides of old Ohio life-newspaper serials, silent movies, road shows, music lessons, the tangled plots and intrigues that flourished in girls' camps and high schools...
...mystery stories as a side line. Example: Economist George Douglas Howard Cole, who has collaborated with his wife on a successful half dozen. Poet Lewis' mysteries, however, are noteworthy because he meets professional mystery writers on their own ground with only an occasional literary elegance to reveal its author's other talents...