Word: authoress
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Rover believes that last week was an ideal week for the person with newsy spirit," continued Ingham, who is the brother of Katharine Brush, the authoress. "On Monday he went to the "Green Pastures' School for the young Negroes who are potential pasturers. The Rover gained entrance on the pretense that he was from the board of education. Many are the roles played by the Rover as he scoots over his course for news. Tuesday, he wrote of his friend Hannibal. Wednesday, a lady who was sent home from London in the war days by Herbert Hoover to stop...
...verse. The Princess Marries the Page. It was her first play. While the rest of the U. S. was buckling into the machine that was to send A. E. F. divisions catapulting into France, seven Vassar girls were whispering and giggling over their parts. On the much-rehearsed night Authoress Millay played the Princess, took many a curtain call. Next year, as a real grown-up actress, she played the same part in Manhattan's arty Provincetown Playhouse. Life began to go fast for Authoress Millay. She lost the manuscript of her play, was too busy to bother about...
Unlike most undergraduate poets, Authoress Millay in this trial flight kept her immortal longings strictly under control. Her airily unpretentious blank verse, never seeking to vie with Marlowe or Milton, avoids comparisons, succeeds perfectly in cloaking a little masterpiece...
Readers of Authoress Pearl Syden-stricker Buck's The Good Earth (TIME, March 16, 1931), homely melodrama of a Chinese family, now in its 23rd printing, will look, forward to Sons, which tells them more about the fortunes of the Wang family. As lengthy (467 pages) as her first best seller, Sons is just as pleasantly written, should give the reader the same pleasant feeling of delving deep into Chinese consciousness...
...kills her on the spot. This incident gives him a dislike for women; his other wives are taken merely as good investments. As Wang the Tiger's star rises, the fortunes of Merchant and Landlord Wang, who supply him with cash, rise too. Like a clever serializer, Authoress Buck draws her curtain before the inevitable...