Word: authorities
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...exhibit many flying buttresses of outside inquiry into the lives of the minor members of the cast (George Germain, General Gates, the Continental Commander Charles Lee) and many gargoyles of antique wit quoted from the talk of the coffeehouses, the clubs, the theatres of the day or from the author's own invention. Praised by many critics, it caused Frank Sullivan, playboy of the New York World, to join the old, outmoded, bedroom school of literary criticism in his admission that the book had caused his boudoir reading lamp to burn long and late. Perhaps an extravagance, a lack...
...Author may append to his name, Francis Josiah Hudleston, the enigmatic initials O. B. E., C. B. E.; these signify that he is an officer, a commander of the Order of the British Empire. He is also librarian of the British War Office. His first book Warriors in Undress was a snicker at the absurdities of war. Author Hudleston is not without literary connections; Sylvia Townsend Warner (author of Lolly Willowes, Mr. Fortune's Maggot) is his niece; Arthur Machen is his brother...
...will of the late Commodore Lithgow. To readers previously acquainted with the legal acrobatics of the two Tutts, it is unnecessary to explain how the elder and more talented member of the firm, aided by the unexpected, scores his point. Such readers will hope that the mind of Author Train, which has already produced, among his other works, Page Mr. Tutt, Tut, Tut! Mr. Tutt, Tutt and Mr. Tutt, will be able to produce an almost endless train of witty, scheming Tutts...
...that furnish its title: from Noah Webster, " '. . .the yellow gentian which has a very bitter taste' " and from The New Botany, "'... flowers, pushing through from some inner plane of being, and with such energy that they are visible to man. Especially the blue gentian.' " Even in the bitterest of Author Gale's stories there is a vein of iron sentimentality; even in her bravest, there is a grimly sentimental irony. Yet sentimentality is only the approximate, not the exact word to describe a humanity that prevents each of Author Gale's terse episodes from being merely a brilliant chart...
Homer Croy, author of "West of the Water Tower" and the recent published "Fancy Lady", has spoken of modern religion with an agreeable un-assertiveness in an interview published yesterday in the Herald. Sounding the death knell of the clergyman and predicting the early disappearance of what he calls the "Sunday School kind of religion. Mr. Croy is the herald of a replacing social philosophy. This theory is especially interesting when he declares that Sinclair Lewis is not the only thinker to share it: rather, almost all the young American intelligentsia, even including members of the clergy like a John...