Word: authorative
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Here, "curt, clear, complete," is my record: University graduate with B.A. degree and Phi Beta Kappa key; editorial staff member of metropolitan newspaper; editor and manager of monthly magazine; advertising copywriter; researcher; writer of publicity, book, theatre and cinema reviews, editorials; author of feature and travel articles, biographical sketches, monographs, essays, fiction (appearing in more than a score of publications in the U. S. and England) ; young enough to be inquisitive; old enough to be acquisitive; adaptable; resourceful. Can boss or be bossed as the occasion demands; can type; can-with a little brushing up-operate a switchboard; with...
Tough Nuts. The story of the prolonged Brest-Litovsk negotiations and the subsequent short but eventful history of the Ukrainian Republic is told in a scholarly book by British Author John W. Wheeler-Bennett, The Forgotten Peace.* The moral drawn by Mr. Wheeler-Bennett suggests that Herr Hitler may find himself swimming in trouble rather than prosperity should his Ukrainian campaign be successful...
...Dineen, Boston newspaperman and author of "Ward Eight" has written the script for "Misprints of 1938" lampooning prominent events and figures. In addition to Jimmy Durante and Ethel Merman, principal luminaries of "Stars in Your Eyes," many other screen and radio stars will be present...
Galsworthian technique-thorough rubber-necking at upper-middle-class lives -is at best photographic, kaleidoscopic; at worst trite, futile, obvious. One of Alec Waugh's characters testifies against the author on page 263 (not yet the end): "Her marriage had become like a novel on whose two hundredth page the reader, foreseeing the climax, can only remain inquisitive as to the actual means by which the ultimate unravelling is to be achieved...
...thought that this novel conclusion, in place of the customary "Sincerely yours," or even "Love" (as the case might be) was something worth calling to your attention. The author of this masterpiece was not a Radcliffe undergrad, as one might think at first, or even a college girl. She is a senior in a-small town high school right here in the Bay State...