Word: authorative
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...substance of Redd's opposition was based upon Frankfurter's religion and on the fact that "it was conceded" Frankfurter was the author of the N. R. A. Both objections were quashed by the senators. Finally Senator Connally asked how many members were in Redd's organization. "I'm the whole works myself," he retorted...
...book is divided into ten parts with such titles as "Biographica," "The Anxiety of Love," "Dreams and Symbols," and "Time the Obsession." Not the least of the charms of this work are the piquant titles to the poems, beginning with "M," which includes the author's two initials and the Roman numeral for 1000. In his brief foreword Moore describes this as "a set of notes, memoranda, indices, jottings, case-histories, mal-adjustments and occasional solutions. When the work is completed the sonnets will finally fit into place, shaping the autobiography of a person of the period...
...must be difficult to pontificate on the daily happenings of this hectic would and one sympathizes with the columnist's tendency to formularize. But when the keynote speech of the head of the Democratic party is "simplified" into a Republican tract, the time has come to warn the ingenuous author that the reading public draws the line somewhere...
...screaming," was converted in a bathroom by his six-year-old sister when he was four. (Embellishing this miracle, his father wrote a tract credited with converting thousands of wild Indians.) At seven, after a hard-fought spiritual struggle, he attained Grace. "Since I attained the state of Sanctification," Author Smith testifies, "I have never felt the slightest twinge of conscience, never experienced for one second the sense...
Like many an oldster, Logan Pearsall Smith is convinced that the younger generation (including practically everybody since Pater) is damned. Bad writers because of their "need for money, and plenty of it," they will never enter Author Smith's literary heaven. Their one hope of Grace, he pronounces, is to become expatriates...