Word: authorities
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ordinary hazards attendant upon crossing Harvard Square is added the possibility of drowning, but those brave enough to venture out before its remains disappear have several interesting lectures to attract them today. Chief among them will be the one by Professor Murdock on "James Fennimore Cooper". Cooper is an author whose popularity is not today all that it has been, but he still has a following among those who appreciate adventure stories. The lecture will be at 10 o'clock in Harvard...
...Sinclair Lewis, who before her marriage to the well-known author was Dorothy Thompson, a distinguished foreign correspondent for American newspaper, will speak on "The New Russia" at the Community Church, 6 Byron Street, Boston, at 8 o'clock this evening...
Napoleon's Barber. Those who know Author Arthur Caesar, on whose drama this picture is :based, say he is a radical and a pacifist, a definition which makes it hard to understand why Mr. Caesar should have made Napoleon appear a jolly general whose devotion to his country is rivalled only by his love for his wife, Josephine. But regardless of whether or not Mr. Caesar has pilloried his own ideas and regardless of what you think of Napoleon you can understand the predicament of a barber who, burning with hatred of his master, finds himself passing a sharp...
When an incalculably rich and potent publisher stoops to the lowly plane of author, and writes a piece for his paper, the subject must be dear to his heart. Last week it was no less a publisher than Capt. Joseph Medill Patterson who appeared as contributor to his nickel weekly, Liberty-His subject was aviation and to adumbrate his emotion he quoted from Kipling (with emendations) as follows...
...Author. When Woodward was a small boy in South Carolina he read a book which proved the South had won the Civil War. Such was his surprise when he later learned otherwise that his curiosity, permanently caught, culminated in his study of Grant. In between time, however, he was advertizing man, banker, author of Bread and Circuses, George Washington, and admitted originator of the word "debunk." Patriots, private as well as professional, cavilled at his .debunking of George Washington, will carp at the same treatment of Grant. Of Washington, Author Woodward replied he had made no effort to "show...