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...that is ample to earn this Turk several graduate and honorary degrees in murdery. From the barest hints he becomes a lurking presence whose actuality Mr. Houdini could scarce disparage. He and his dirty crew begin ostensibly as figments in the imagination of a marriageable young Connecticut authoress of our time. Then they make it clear that as she has conceived, so shall she bear. No fair telling the end, shocking though it is; Miss Macfadyen has devised with restraint worthy of emulation. She handles substance as deftly as shadow and abides by Rule 1 for horror-writers?"The brighter...
...Were diverted by a tale of a drunken fisherman at an English seaside, resort who successfully sued for libel an authoress who had described a drunken fisherman of that resort in one of her novels without so much as mentioning his name. Lord Gorrell told the story, attached to it a moral in the shape of a bill to protect writers from such obviously "put up" libel suits. Sharply criticised, he withdrew the measure for revision...
...Burney is said to have stated with simpering naivete that she had "thought it would look very well in print". And, fortunately, the gentle lady was right: "Evelina" did look well in print. The formidable Dr. Johnson testified to the truth of that. But the isolated case of this authoress, who, by the way, was really an authoress, does not allow everyone to conclude that his writing must also appear to advantage on the printed page. From every side come puerile messages published by ball players and bankers, doctors and divorcees, cowboys and counts...
Divorced. Laurel Louisa Fletcher Connely, authoress, onetime wife of Author Booth Tarkington, daughter of Stoughton A. Fletcher, famed Indianapolis banker, from Willard Connely, Harvard professor; in Boston. In 1911, when she was suing Tarkington for a divorce, she wrote and published a poem which began: "I wish that there were some wonderful place called the Land of Beginning Again...
...last session of the [state] legislature," he did not persuade his colleagues to make the resolution retroactive to the medical research money, $5,000 of which had been spent or allocated, nor to $218,000 in the past accepted from the Carnegie Fund for teachers' pensions. Zona Gale, authoress-trustee (in effect) : "A question of fundamental democracy is involved. The University should not accept such gifts no matter how far backwards...