Word: authorative
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...novel-about-Paris, Men of Good Will (TIME, June 5, 1933 et seq.). In this installment Novelist George Allory, bitterly chagrined by his failure of election to the Academy, begins his tumble to the gutter; while Psychiatrist Viaur starts climbing to the stars. No end is in sight, and Author Romains has not divulged how much is yet to come...
...Curtis P. Nettels, Professor of History, University of Wisconsin, an expert in the early economic history of America, and author of "The Money Supply of the American Colonies before 1720," will give a course in American history covering the colonial period up through the Revolutionary war and the formation of the Constitution...
...Nicolai S. Timasheff, formerly Professor of Law at the Faculty of Economics, the Polytechnicum, St. Petersburg, Russia, has been reappointed Lecturer on Sociology for a second year. He is the author of numerous works dealing with the causes and punishment of crime, and the theories and administration of Soviet Russia. He will give courses in "Introduction to Sociology of Law"; "Modern European Social Reforms"; and "Individualized Treatment of Crime an Criminals...
...author's style is terse, to the point, easy to read. There are no wasted words. This is a dignified chronicle of a dignified event. Even the Harvard-phobia who starts at the first page will not lay down the book until the end is reached. A sense of the magnitude of what is being recorded grasps the reader comparable to that which grasped the watchers last year. Mr. Greene makes those days live again...
...gets boy, boy looses girl, winn(ing)er take all, or something to that effect. As the successful Broadway producer, Charles Winninger turns in the most believable performance. He is the peg from which are hung the story's numerous coats and vests. Round him revolve the successful musicomedy author, Don Ameche, the would-be writer of tragedy, Alice Faye, the nigger in the woodpile, Gypsy Rose Lee, alias Louise Hovick, stooges just stooges, the Ritz Brothers, and incidentally Rubinoff and his violin...