Word: authorities
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Died. Vicente Blasco Ibanez, most famed living Spanish author [Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse; Mare Nostrum; Blood and Sand; Alfonso XIII Unmasked (banned in his own country); others] ; of bronchial pneumonia; at his villa in Menton, France, where he lived, a voluntary exile. Of Spain under the dictatorship of Primo de Rivera, he wrote: ". . . it de-teriorates." His monarch he called "slave." In retaliation, a Spanish diplomat, the Marques de Merry del Val, explained: ". . . his loose, inaccurate style has pre-vented him . . from admission...
...squirmed in the horror of an endless gloom. Then the wise fingers of Anne Sullivan Macy, tracing with infinite patience signs and symbols upon her hand, brought Helen Keller along a lane to light. Years later she could read and write. Years later still, when she was an author, lecturer, philanthropist, Mark Twain could say that the two most interesting characters of the 19th century were Napoleon and Helen Keller...
...that small boys tender to Buffalo Bill, from wretched demimondaines who imagine that their dreary chirpings, their horrid -amusements bear a close resemblance to the more graceful if less temperate indiscretions of the immortal Ninon. The history of her long and erratic career (1615-1705) is well recounted by Author Austin, without evidence of vast research, in his shallow, swift running style. He regards her misdemeanors with a sympa- thetic eye, is careful to point out that her liaisons often cooled to life-long friendships. Well he describes her receiving, in the convent to which she had been temporarily remanded...
...generations that the wit of the Yard was receiving his friends, was perhaps also giving one of his famous impromptu readings. Last week news came that the light will continue to burn. Professor Copeland will keep his rooms, will occasionally lecture-will inevitably "read aloud from a book." Wrote Author Conrad Aiken in the Harvard Crimson: ". . . One of those resignations of which the acceptance can only be official...
NOVEMBERNIGHT?Anonymous?Bobbs Merrill ($2.50). Like the sinister figure of a masked and hooded surgeon the anonymous author of November Night morbidly and efficiently slits the emotional substrata of complex characters. Denise, egocentric wife of a self-made man, is a neurotically dissatisfied Hedda Gabler. Denise's shadowy longings finally take form in a kind of worship of her own expectant motherhood, and crisis-inspired, she joins the Roman Church. She has a pet cocoon of a Hop Dog moth which she cherishes as a symbol of her belief in life in the chrysalis. When the Hop Dog emerges...