Word: authoress
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...every schoolboy who has read the first three novels knows, Authoress Undset's scene is medieval (14th Century) Norway, her people medieval Norse Christians violent in action, grim of conscience. In this instalment old Hero Olav has withered into the sere & yellow, but he is still master in his own house, who can save himself much speech by an occasional frown. Unconfessed sins have darkened Olav's mind. His dead wife's bastard son. Eirick, is a living reminder of the murder of his wife's betrayer. Eirick, son avenger of the title, never learns the secret of his birth...
...Authoress Sigrid Undset won the Nobel Prize in Literature (1928) with her tril- ogy, Kristin Lavransdatter. She was the third Norwegian to win it. (Others: Bjornstjerne Bjornson, 1903; Knut Hamsun, 1920.) A convert to Roman Catholicism, she was decorated "Pro Ecclesia et Pontifice" by Pope Pius XI. She has also written Jenny...
...Author. Harold Nicolson (44), third and youngest son of Sir Arthur, grew up in the diplomatic atmosphere of foreign legations, entered the Foreign Office in 1909, later served in Embassies at Madrid and Constantinople. He married (1913) Authoress Victoria Sackville-West (TIME, Sept. 1). They have two sons. Egregious among present biographers, historians, he has a style polite, accurate, ironic, never loud. Viz: "Mr. Henry White, the United States representative was conciliatory, ignorant and charming...
...James Duval Phelan (died Aug. 7), California Democrat, one-time (1897-1902) Mayor of San Francisco, onetime (1915-21) U. S. Senator; upwards of $10,000,000. Bequests: to the James Duval Phelan Foundation and other San Francisco institutions, $4,000,000; to Gertrude Atherton, "California's great authoress," $20,000, and $5,000 each to her four children and grandchildren; to Helen Newington Wills Moody, $20,000 and valuable works of art "in appreciation of her winning the tennis championship for California"; to many a friend in the U. S., South America and England, many a thousand...
...scene, re-establishes herself in the community, re-engages herself to Stan, Margaret's cold but not really hard heart has begun to blossom. There are naturally complications; in fact, the situation becomes so sinister, hopeless and black that you can hardly hope there will be a happy delivery. Authoress Norris, however, comes smiling through...