Word: authorative
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...chief of Recreation in the U. S. Forest Service, Robert Marshall lived a year in Wiseman, wrote Arctic, Village (TIME, May 15, 1933), which features Martin Slisco. To too Koyukukans mentioned in his book, Author Marshall sent $18 each, the total representing half his proceeds...
...author of Actor Meredith's last two successes, Winterset and High Tor, quickly soothed managerial feelings. "The Theatre," said Maxwell Anderson, shaggy, amiable and prolific poetic dramatist, "has lived by its wits during most of its history. It will continue to live by its wits and to be the most important American art. . . . Governments tax it, scalpers scalp it, unions hold it up, dramatists quarrel with producers, moving pictures devour its children as fast as they appear-and still our theatre is the centre of civilization in New York and in the United States and quite amazingly, the foremost...
...Guild in 1935. In spite of his close Hollywood connections, he immediately set about revising the standard Guild playwright's contract so that now if a film company is the financial backer of a legitimate show, it must purchase the film rights at a price set by the author and a group of negotiators, or else let it-be sold in the open market. This clause prevents the film producer from taking unlimited advantage of his own rebate and from shutting out competitive bidding on the script from other film companies...
...Pittsburgh Field Club, dwindled to a white speck, landed on the fairway, rolled to a stop. Officials noted its exact position: 313 yd. 17 in. from the spot where it had been hit. That drive, hit last Sunday afternoon before a big gallery of other professionals, got its author, 24-year-old Professional Sam Snead of White Sulphur Springs, W. Va., $200, first prize in Sports Illustrated'?, first annual driving contest, held as a curtain-raiser to the Professional Golfers Association annual tournament which started the next...
...sure enough, Standish's absence was discovered, and the ship put about to look for him. It would make her a day late in Panama, but duty was duty. As the calm narrative steams slowly towards its climax the suspense in which Author Lewis dangles his hero and the reader grows more excruciating...