Word: authorities
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...small, wiry man with the careworn face was happy. He had lived down his onetime nickname, "Nervous Nelly." Now the whole world knew him as the author of The Multilateral Treaty to Renounce War as an Instrument of National Policy. He has just received, last week, the unanimous promises to sign his treaty of the following nations: Great Britain, France, Germany, Japan, Italy, Canada, Australia, Poland, New Zealand, India, Rumania, South Africa, Czechoslovakia, Irish Free State.* Never before had so many nations bound themselves with the U. S. to take a momentous step...
Married. Clarence Shepard Day, 53, author (This Simian World), son of the late Clarence S. Day Sr., onetime governor of the N. Y. Stock Exchange ; and Katherine Brigges Dodge, 27, librarian, of Concord, Mass., in Manhattan...
...cross between St. George and Don Quixote"-one might add P. Y. Barnum to Author Long's analysis, and so justify Asquith in diagnosing Bryan as "a peculiar product of your country." If by peculiar he meant curious, there are those in this country who would agree; if, which is more likely, he meant typical, there are those who would cavil. Not so Author Long, who writes a sympathetic though by no means fanatic account of the loves and hates, works and troubles, of the peculiar product...
...mother had wished for her. For luckily an English husband rescued her from the missionaries, and later a lover in Paris rescues her from her duty. That she is glad to be rescued, in spite of criticism, consummates at last her mother's ideal of joyous living. Author Glaspell advocates this pagan ideal superfluously. But whatever her "message," she draws with poignancy the conflict and reconciliation between mother and daughter...
...leadership of a sect of fanatics who confessed, screamed, rolled in mystic joy. In a country-wide revival his converts rivalled Elmer Gantry's in emotional displays, but his own motive and reaction, unlike Elmer Gantry's, are recorded in art and not in bitter propaganda. Author Davies has crudities,of technique, but not of sympathy. A difficult undertaking, this analysis of the tortures of a sensitive man, harassed by women, consumed by religious mania, ends wretchedly when Reuben finds both lacking...