Word: authoress
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Cracks and gags are Authoress Powell's specialty. This novel crackles with them. As social comment it is a feast of peanut brittle...
...Wylie. Last week the real author came out of hiding, proved to be Novelist Grace Zaring Stone (The Almond Tree, The Bitter Tea of General Yen), who had waited to declare herself till a daughter in Hungary had safely reached the U.S. Of her pen name (Ethel Vance), Authoress Stone explained she had chosen it because "it sounds like a name you were born with...
Hers is one of the liveliest books yet written on labor. Result is a picture of the trampling herd as seen by a talented family black sheep-and two ironies that Authoress Strauss did not foresee. Irony No. 1: Her leftist criticisms will do much to reassure U.S. readers not dedicated to perpetuating social chaos that Ernest Bevin, Herbert Morrison, et al. are responsible leaders. Irony No. 2: From Author Strauss's book emerges an unusually crisp self-portrait of the radical intellectual mind-its arid cleverness, doctrinaire arrogance, urban provincialism, intolerant insistence on substituting ideas for life...
...Each new member," says Authoress Strauss thriftily, "means another penny a week to be collected on Sunday mornings." But the canvassing is "arduous and disappointing work." When one "innocent canvasser" asked "a pregnant Cockney woman," "Are you for Labor?" she turned on him "scornfully," said: "This ain't no bloody mosquito bite...
Arthur Greenwood, Minister of Post-War Reconstruction, has "a disconcerting ability to make impassioned speeches of which it is afterwards difficult to remember the content." "He gesticulates a great deal with loose wrists, so that one watches his hands fascinated, certain they will fly off his arms. . . ." Says Authoress Strauss: "Of his claim to near-greatness there is no question. . . . But indulging his passion for speaking at public meetings has debauched his mind...