Word: authorities
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...enlightening commentary upon the nature and powers of the body. The names finally selected by the nominating committee from a long list of suggestions include a remarkable diversity of professions and occupations. In the list are six lawyers, two merchants, a banker, a manufacturer, a doctor, an author, an educator, one prominent in social service, one in public affairs, one in the real estate business. It would be difficult to imagine a list representative of a larger circle of contacts and experience than this...
...former editor of "Country Life", and is the author of many books, on architecture, industrial art, and garden design, and it is expected that he will draw from his experiences while in this work when lecturing Monday night...
...little disillusioning it is, after all these months, to find that Mr. Sterling was he, too much like meeting an author. One was confident in the honesty of Mr. Foley's claim to the honors of creation. Sterling, Sterling. Well, Sterling...
This anonymous author, probably a woman, whose almost supernatural gift for intuitive writing was responsible for 'Miss Tiverton Goes Out,' has produced a significant psychological study. The importance of the book dwells in the amazing quality which the author has for under-standing and analyzing human* conflict, subconscious reaction...
...choice of a new husband, she at last declines the proposals of her husband's stepbrother although these are reinforced by the per- suasions of his family. Instead she marries her U. S. lawyer, Bryce Sutherland (clubs: Racquet and Tennis), because he is a bigger and better man. Author Graham writes polite romance in mannered English and affected French. Disregarding the roses and raptures of vice, she paints, with a small brush dipt in gilt, the lilies and languors of virtue...