Word: authorities
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...dead enemy provides blood-curdling Cuban spooks, but the author ingeniously produces a flesh-and-blood murderer...
...this inopportune moment. Elsie Hilary therefore compelled him to go to her rival rather than come to her in dishonor. Having so neatly forced an opportunity to show how Elsie Hilary had been trapped by the absurd codes and customs of the class in which she had been unwanted, Author Lonsdale showed instead, and very prettily, that the actress was the finest gentleman of them...
Bankrupt. Arthur Benjamin Reeve, novelist, creator of "Craig Kennedy, the Scientific Detective." Author Reeve's affidavit, filed in Manhattan, stated that he owes nearly...
...script. He escapes to New Mexico. She pursues with a sheriff. In self-defense he signs a rival producer's contract, and marries a sub-star from Kansas City, to the luxurious jingle of magnificent jewels, gilt-edged limousines, plum-colored footmen, in short−Hollywood. The author handles his glittering incredible material with staccato brilliance...
...Henry Dickens, 79, only living son of Novelist Charles Dickens, flayed in London one Carl E. Bechofer-Roberts who had written a novel, Ephesian, defaming his father. Said he: "The book is so utterly unworthy of the slightest consideration . . . that I must decline to serve the author's purpose by adding to its publicity. ... If any one had dared to publish a book like this 58 years ago when my father died, hundreds of people would have arisen to give...