Word: authorities
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Author. Distinguished disciple of Henry James, Edith Wharton fills her pages with lucid psychological analyses. She does so with much of the master's charm, none of his diffuseness, some of his greatness. Like him she lives mostly abroad, and writes of the U. S. Daughter of a Rhinelander, she was brought up to winter in Manhattan, summer in Newport, travel in Europe. Her most brilliant work reflects Fifth Avenue society of the '90s (in her House of Mirth, in her Age of Innocence), but oddly enough her masterpiece concerns the passion and remorse of a New England...
...Dine, author of The Benson Murder Case, The "Canary" Murder Case, The Greene Murder Case, is not S. S. Van Dine. But he does wear a Van Dyke beard. Also he confesses in the September American Magazine: "I am 39 years old-oh. well, call it 40, since my birthday falls next month. ... I have written since the age of four, when a poem of mine was printed in my home paper. ... I attended seven different colleges here and abroad [including Harvard]. ... I came back to America on the last western trip made by the Lusitania, and went...
...Romantic Age by A. A. Milne, a flop. He heard someone comment on the name above "Presents" on the program, and changed it to Jed Harris. Next he wheedled enough more backing to put on Weak Sisters, which showed a small profit. After that he met George Abbott, co-author of Love 'Em and Leave 'Em, which he produced. Love 'Em and Leave 'Em was a smash...
...Author Warshow's book is a faithful ledger of the men and properties Jay Gould bought, and those he sold. It achieves a triumphant balance. It is a record of almost unbroken success. A vast speculator, Jay Gould consistently preserved and increased his fortune, died the richest man of his time. Even a measure of happiness was not denied him. From his last sickbed he could look out at his beloved orchids (8,000) and azaleas (2,000). A devoted family watched over him. And if his stocks soared in relief when his sinister influence finally passed from Wall...
...author: Robert Irving Warshow, Cornell graduate, long has been a contributor to economic and financial journals. Jay Gould is his first published book...