Word: authorities
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Sullivan, the author of the play, secured this gun for the club from E.W. North of Columbus, Nebraska, a nephew of Major North, who was a range leader fifty years...
...Significance. The parents of genius usually invite more speculation than its children. But its children have supplied Author Kennedy with the material for two novels. Just as in The Constant Nymph she studied reflections of the erratic musician Sanger, as they appeared in his children, she now unfolds the more tragic influences of Norman Crowne as they animate his son and daughter. As these two are more tragic, they are more spectacular. Their bright uneven beauty sometimes begins to be a little unreal. But the construction of her theme, the way in which their mercurial doings are played against...
...Author began her list of works with A Century of Revolution, which is not at all like either herself or her later writings, and in which nobody who reads her novels takes more than a studious interest. The Ladies of Lyndon, her first fiction, made small stir; but with The Constant Nymph there was a great roar of approval from critics and gentle readers. At that time Author Kennedy was not long out of Somerville College, Oxford, where she sang in Sir Hugh Allen's famed Oxford Bach Choir. Author Kennedy dislikes games & most violent exercise, likes swimming, dancing...
ADAM & EVE-John Erskine-Bobbs-Merrill ($2.50). The simplicity of Author Erskine's formula is so evident that definition is unnecessary. What escapes definition is this: why should talk that would be only mildly witty coming from the mouths of imaginary characters be continuously entertaining when imagined as spouting from mythical Helen of Troy, legendary Galahad or biblical Eve? Here is the triangle of Eve, Lilith, and poor old Adam, who gets tossed up and down in the web of their attractions like a fresh-man in a blanket. First Lilith gets him, then Eve, then Lilith, then...
...school, his son to work through college. Edward Patterson gives up. He makes amends to his wife who resents his incipient affair with Ruth Ingraham, returns to insurance selling and normality. The result of this is a novel that proves little. Nevertheless, handicapped by the mediocrity of his theme, Author Webster, who as a novelist is no beginner, achieves a story which is characteristically well-built and worth reading...