Word: authorities
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...gross of TIME and scatter them broadside among his friends and relations. He will even give one to each of his mother-in-laws. Ah! How great he will be. All the people who are so fortunate as to know him will look up to him as an author or a devil or something...
...Mexico City's new Chief of Police, General Antonio Rios Zertuche. The General, an intimate and brother-in-arms of General Obregon is determined, perhaps too determined, to find out that the assassin, one José de Leon Toral, an insignificant Roman Catholic fanatic, was not the sole author of the crime as he still insists that...
Machinal. It is related that Sophie Treadwell, author of Machinal and in private life the wife of Sports-Columnist W. O. McGeehan, witnessed the murder trial of Ruth Snyder and Judd Gray; that brooding upon it, she was able to select from the gaudy tangle a single thread on which to build her tragedy. Thus in Machinal a young woman marries, to escape the routine of work in an office, a gross and chuckling businessman. She bears him a child which she hates as she fears its father; then, in a speakeasy, she meets a man with whom she falls...
...Author. Louis Bromfield is one of those who live in Paris the better to get perspective on the American scene, but his origins are all-American. Born (1896) in Ohio of Boston-Maryland stock, he went to public schools, and to the Cornell Agricultural School. During the War he served with the French Army, in numerous sectors from Switzerland to the North Sea. He then resumed newspaper jobs in Manhattan, wrote up current theatre, worked on a music magazine...
...find her. The Tideboy estate was sold to a Britisher, given to protracted orgies, and his color less, passionate wife. The Britisher fled during a drunken spell, joined the circus in which Phoebe was featured. One guessed at the ending. In his better moments (The Chicken-Wagon Family) Author Benefield has been compared with Barrie, Morley, Donn Byrne...