Word: authorative
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...days later Izvestia officially admitted its editorial "error," labeled the Suvinsky editorial "essentially an enemy's outburst. . . . The author of the article, who crudely distorted facts and made completely wrong and politically harmful conclusions, has been removed from Izvestia...
...Yachtsman Inglis Uppercu bought her in 1929. sold her last year to 74-year-old William S. Gubelmann (National Cash Register Co.). Joseph Conrad, older (1882), smaller (116 ft.), chunkier, was also a training ship-used by the Danish Government for 52 years. Three years ago Author-Adventurer Alan Villiers saw her in Copenhagen, heard she was for sale, snapped her up. took a crew of eight nationalities on a picaresque world cruise, wrote a book about it (Cruise of the Conrad), then sold the ship to 24-year-old George Huntington Hartford II. A. & P. (chain stores) scion. Both...
...make convincing a personality to justify these tributes. Latest try is Alfred H. Bill's Astrophel. Written in a half-scholarly, half-popular vein, it adds only the most cautious speculation to the known facts; its main contribution is a closely-woven background of the times, the author's enthusiasm for his subject...
...from reading English detective stories. Hwa-che's first few casts did credit to her training but instead of solving the mystery got herself and several other people into terrible trouble. How everything was enabled to come so deliciously right in the end is the professional secret of Author Bramah...
When a French author is looking for a thoroughly sombre background he is apt to pick that part of France-better known as the provinces-which is not Paris. Claude starts off with as much gloomy naturalism as the drabbest of them, and for the first 50 pages a normally cheerful reader may turn up his coat collar, wish it would stop raining. But if he perseveres beyond this chilling introduction he will soon feel such warming rays as will make his coat unnecessary. By book's end he will have been acclimatized to the varied weather...