Word: authorities
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Laurence Stallings, author (Plumes), playwright (What Price Glory?), is now a planter in Caswell County, N. C. Last , week he took his first lot of tobacco, some 400 Ibs., to Danville, Va.; sold...
...great demand by Harvard Clubs throughout the country, most of which wished to keep their members in touch with the University. During the past year it was shown at over 50 Harvard Clubs, and gathering of graduates. One print of the film went as far the Argentine, and still author to the Yenching Institute in China...
...William Holesworth, who is the author of the "History of English Law" has written an essay on "Blackstone's Treatment of Equity". Blackstone was the first to hold the Vinerian professorship which Holesworth now holds. Famous for his "Commentaries". Blackstone exerted a powerful influence on American law at a time when law books were exceedingly scarce in this country. The "Commentaries" consist chiefly of the material which the author used for his lectures and, similarly. Holesworth's article contains material from these lectures...
...Author. Ernest Hemingway's father, a doctor of Oak Park, Ill., last year committed suicide while in ill health. He saw little of his son, for the novelist, following, athletic U.. S. schooldays, Wardays on the Italian front during which he was severely wounded, has lived in France. Burly, laconic as his prose, he is fond of bullfighting, fishing, winter sports. Once he entered the bull ring himself, emerged with several ribs broken. Besides his two novels he has written two books of short stones (In Our Time, Men Without Women'), a satiric novelette (The Torrents...
...first travel book about Germany written since the War. Later ones will have to go far to equal it. Differences between the German Republic and Germany of the Kaisers are noted wherever they occur; in 420 pages of text there are 300 original photographs; although covering practically all Germany, Author Newman finds space for anecdotes-personal, historical, legendary. Important conclusion: Germany is one country that says "Welcome" without demanding payment at her door...