Word: authorities
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Robert Emmet Sherwood's feet fill size 13 shoes. He is editor and cinema critic of Life, and author of The Road to Rome, highly successful comedy...
...Author Ludwig seemed likely to offer valid entertainment...
Died. Archibald Gary Coolidge, 61, famed professor of history at Harvard, at one time attached to the U. S. Diplomatic Service, author of works on political history, editor of Foreign Affairs; at his home, in Boston...
...small room in an English country house, famed Author Thomas Hardy lay sick in bed. Frail, 87, a little querulous in his talk, he still seemed unaccustomed to this invalid ease, the result of a chill he lad caught a month before. His hands, as thin and brown as claws, played nervously with the edge of his quilt. James Barrie came to talk to him; Hardy's peaked mournful face was turned sideways on its pillow, his voice seemed shrill and tired as he spoke to the writer who, with himself, shares the honor of being most respected...
After this there was a clamor about the most fitting burial place for so great an author. It was decided that the ashes of the man who had written, in the last paragraph of one of his greatest novels, "'Justice was done' . . . and the President of the Immortals had ended his sport with Tess. . . ." should be taken to Westminster Abbey, burial place of famed Englishmen, preserved in a vault. His heart, removed from his body before cremation, was buried in the earth at Dorchester...