Word: authorative
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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From Tarzana, Calif, (named after his tree-swinging nature-man) Author Edgar Rice Burroughs issued an ultimatum to all wrestlers, boxers, strongmen, footballers calling themselves Tarzan: " 'Tarzan' is a copyrighted trademark and if these plug-uglies insist upon using it, I'm going to insist on the right to license them and stencil the copyright number on their chests...
There Bilitzstein himself played the score on a piano, on a bare stage lighted only by a single spotlight. Although it was originally planned that the author-composer should merely play and describe the action, the actors rose spontaneously from their seats to deliver their lines for a performance which Archibald MacLeish, curator of the Nieman Collection of Journalism, has called "the most exciting evening of theatre this New York generation has ever seen...
...Ginsberg, the Post said: "That's quite true, but Trotsky's name is Bronstein. It's just an old Bolshevik custom." The Post added that it had checked through the U. S. Embassy in Paris and the State Department in Washington and was satisfied that its author was the real Krivitsky...
...rural superstitions: those who prepare for the end of the world during an eclipse are the same who invent the community's ghosts and picturesque fables. Their births, deaths, weddings, coon hunts, corn-huskings, box suppers, hog killings, squabbles, worries, jokes and tragedies are memorable because Author Harris writes about them sensitively and honestly rather than because they are dramatic in themselves...
Busy with his Forty Years of Psychic Research at the time he heard this, Author Garland discovered too late that Gregory Parent "had passed into the 'fourth dimension.' " But for pan royalties in the present book a medium attempted to con-tact the Parents in the spirit world...