Word: authoress
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...Authoress Strauss specializes in the cultivated titter, the swift verbal snickersnee...
Cindy Lou Bethany of Authoress Clare Boothe's play was a syrupy Southern blue blood who went to a Connecticut house-party with a Hollywood director to meet a Hollywood producer and salt away the screen role of Velvet O'Toole, the Confederate heroine of the national best-seller Kiss the Boys Goodbye. Paramount's Cindy Lou (Mary Martin) is an out-of-work Broadway chorine who scurries to her ancestral Southern home after learning that a Broadway director (night-blooming Don Ameche) is Dixie-bound to scour the South for a sure-nuf Southern belle...
...says Authoress Horn, "doesn't know what to do about the Philippines and never has, from the very beginning." She kids the pious rationalizations of McKinley, the imperialistic fanfare of Senator Beveridge (Almighty God had "marked us as His chosen people, henceforth to lead in the regeneration of the world"). She finds equally quixotic the present-day Filipino hope for coexistent 1) independence, 2) protection by the Asiatic Fleet, 3) free trade with the U. S., 4) exit from the international scene. For President Manuel Quezon-a sort of hothouse hybrid between Jimmy Walker and Huey Long...
...like us to believe that democracy is "a way of owning property, a scheme of doing business," and offer the choice between the New Order of a fascist world and the "old corrupted system full of fat and death." Says Librarian MacLeish, with a glance over his shoulder at Authoress Anne Morrow Lindbergh: "The famous woman who assures us in a beautiful and cadenced prose that democracy is old in every country, and that the future like a wave will drown it down, accepts the same alternatives of terror and despair...
...Fern Gravel" was the pen name of a sub-teen authoress whose soul simultaneously exfoliated in and was griped by her Iowa home town, early in the 1900s. Her verses, now brought to light (she had entrusted them to the safekeeping of an adult confidant), are as good examples of dead-pan lyricism as have ever been printed...