Word: authorative
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...regular occupation is teaching. After a year's apprenticeship in a Chicago law firm, he took on an instructorship at the University of Chicago, and after a brief interlude as a Government revenue attorney moved to Columbia in 1924. A pioneer investigator of Federal taxation and the author of several standard textbooks, he is a recognized authority on how to avoid taxes as well as how to levy them. Yet with all Roswell Magill's professorial background Congressmen like and trust him. Once when he appeared before a committee the Congressmen were so impressed by his learning that...
...lecture tour (TIME, Dec. 27), gangling Nobel Prizewinner Sinclair ("Red") Lewis told newsmen that nothing in the world as he finds it annoys him. Asked one reporter: "Does the poverty in the world annoy you, Mr. Lewis?" Annoyed, Author Lewis jumped up, flared: "Don't you try to make a damn fool out of me, young man. God did that already, and you don't need to try to help...
...some collectors like the easy naturalism of Brasher's duck pictures, the spirit of his long-shanked road runner, the dash of his bald eagle. Accordingly, not many bird societies and libraries, but rather sportsmen and dilettantes - like Airplane Manufacturer William Edward Boeing, Cereal Manufacturer W. K. Kellogg, Author Paul de Kruif-have bought 84 complete sets of Brasher (874 pictures of 1,200 species and subspecies). Audubon, during his lifetime, had sold 1,200 sets of his two editions...
...Hang your clothes on a hickory limb, but don't go near the water" the sequel to the play's title, represents the reluctance with which the mother in the story, author, lecturer, feminist, and graduate of Greenwich Village, grants permission to her impetuous daughter to go away on a clandestine week-end with the young man she loves but cannot yet marry. This daughter is bidding fair to be fully as enlightened as her mother was, for it is she who suggested the week...
...Englishman who writes verse." This was enough and he was soon entertained by the hospitality of Sibelius and his wife. Of the composer's appearance he says only a word: "His head was impressive; the mass of Strindberg's without the madness." The interview was typical of the author. He was not, like Boswell, "out with his notebook and pencil as soon as the car left the gate." In his own words, he says, "To me it all seems to have passed in a dream, ending with a stirrup-cup of John Haig and the kindest of partings...