Word: authorative
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Neither. Although on April 8 Clarice Aiken, Wife No. 2, obtained a divorce from Author Aiken in Boston, Mass., he had obtained a Mexican divorce from her last summer, forthwith married Mary Hoover, 30-year-old Boston artist and dancer...
Scare stories prepared him for a bad trip. He was told of inland revolts, the murder of a governor, the blood thirst of Indians for a white man. But it was just talk. Author Hanson hardly realized he had been through savage country until he came out and heard the same scare stories all over again. Venezuela officials were touchy hysterics, but no worse than nuisances; the Indians were merely poor. He grew a beard, however, since without one, said other explorers, his trip would impress no one and he would never get his picture in the rotogravure sections...
...Author Hanson had few adventures of his own, he found plenty second hand. An insatiable inquirer and a lively storyteller, he tells his best story about Gomez' notorious killer Funes, governor of the Amazonas territory, who exterminated half the native population, still held the other half's troubled affection for his "made" work program...
Charmed by the Indians, Author Hanson was pleased to see that, as Depression (1931) forced whites out of the country, the natives were going back to their primitive ways again. Their remaining link with civilization, declares Hanson, is their reluctance to give up pants...
Postdating Poet Holden's previous book of poems (Granite and Alabaster) by 16 years, Natural History, though a far more proficient book, is still alabastrine in its often semiopaque, semiprecious imagery, granitic in its acceptance of the chiseling that life seems to have handed its author...