Word: authorative
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...peppercorn, small but hot," the English were the least compatible people she found. Students looked "just like asparagus cultivated under glass," so soft and pink that she thought they might be almost edible. Flat-heeled, brown-clad English women all looked like schoolteachers. Under the withering catechism of Author Walter De La Mare, Madame Ichikawa admitted that the only things good about England were "the policeman, cart-horses and Simpson's beef-steak." * The worst example of English bad taste she found in her hotel lavatory, where the toilet-paper was stamped with an advertisement showing "a lovely little...
...MAKING or A HERO-Nicholas Ostrovski-Dutton ($2.50). Fast-moving autobiographical novel about a Red cavalryman in the Russian civil war; the author dictated the story while blind and paralyzed, died soon after...
...UNHOLY CITY-Charles G. Finney -Vanguard ($2). Satirical phantasy, in the Major Hoople cartoon vein of wit, about an airline passenger grounded in Floreat Go-Lee; by the author of The Circus...
...STORY OF DICTATORSHIP-E. E. Kellett-Dutton ($1.75)-Brief, heated survey of the world's No. 1 tyrants since Biblical times, who serve the English author's thesis that "Indifferentists," not Tories or Reds, are the ones to blame...
CHARLES KINGSLEY-Margaret Farrand Thorp-Princeton University Press ($3). Amiable biography of the Victorian novelist-preacher-reformer who became the Queen's chaplain and paragon. Macmillan's most profitable novelist, he is little known today except as the author of The Water-Babies...