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Word: authorative (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...charges as Mr. Lamb's ill-considered attack. Bitter wars of words can do no harm to an institution like Harvard, where academic liberty is as firmly entrenched as any vested interest, but such alarms and excursions as Mr. Lamb's essay will bring nothing but discredit upon their author...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LAMB'S TALE | 5/15/1937 | See Source »

...THIS GRANDEUR PERISH?- James T. Farrell-Vanguard ($2.50). Seventeen satirical, sad, sexy, saprophytic stories by the author of the hard-boiled Studs Lonigan trilogy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fiction: Recent Books: May 10, 1937 | 5/10/1937 | See Source »

EARTHLY DISCOURSE-Charles Erskine Scott WTood-Vanguard ($2). The author of Heavenly Discourse presenting a new cast of satirical puppets featuring God, Hearst, King Edward VIII. Hitler, the Supreme Court, Birth Control, Grade...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fiction: Recent Books: May 10, 1937 | 5/10/1937 | See Source »

DEATH WITHOUT BATTLE - Ludwig Renn - Dodd, Mead ($2). Cinematic story, lent a Grimm's fairy-tale touch by primer characterizations and writing, of Communists and disillusioned Storm Troopers in Hitler Germany; by the author of War and After...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fiction: Recent Books: May 10, 1937 | 5/10/1937 | See Source »

...From It All", An Escapologist's Notebook is the pseudo-diary of a person who tried to get away from the fact of life. An escapologist, the author tells us, is "a person who by looks the facts of life in the back of the neck or by sheer force of the imagination conjures them out of existence or urns away from them". Bullfrog, a young English journalist, made his hold attempt to escape these facts of life, and because he failed, because he soon forgot exactly what it was that he was trying to get away from, he wrote...

Author: By J. G. B. jr., | Title: Tbe Bookshelf | 5/10/1937 | See Source »

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