Word: authorities
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Author. Mazo de la Roche, whose face and name are reminiscent of French forbears, was born in Toronto, educated thoroughly and spasmodically. She went to art school in Toronto, but, in contrast to those writers who in moments of inertia decorate their manuscripts with little pictures, Author de la Roche scrawled small stories on her sketch papers. Even now she prefers to write with a drawing board on her knees. Jalna, chosen as the best of 1,100 novels, is by no means her first published work,* though it is the first to bring her wide recognition...
COUNTERPOINT-Josephine Daskam Bacon-John Day ($2.50). Ten years ago the publication of Author Bacon's latest novel held vast interest for novel readers. Here was a lady whose characters were always engaging; no nastiness could be found in Author Bacon's bestsellers, just nice people doing nice things. Now, with the publication of Counterpoint after ten years, a few readers, remembering the old books, will be struck with the way a similar article produces a different reaction. Over this story of Will Stickney, of Naomi Lestrange (whom he marries, with whom he parts after vicissitudes, to whom...
...Noli '12, Harvard graduate, author, translator, orthodox priest, bishop, liberal, and former premier of Albania, has been sentenced to death. This sentence has been given him and eight of his compatriots for recently signing a manifesto protesting against the regime of Ahmed Zogu, who executed a coup d'etat in December, 1924, ousting Fan Noli from the Presidency. The sentences were by default, however, since all of the condemned men are living abroad...
...newspaper clipping some years ago that the bell of the Guerriere was supposed to be still in existence somewhere in New England, and while hunting for the elusive bell he came across an unpublished manuscript giving a complete history of "Old Ironsides." In a footnote to this manuscript the author mentioned a hitherto unknown work, "Scenes in the Last War," by Moses Smith...
...Paris, gay with spring. Then he turned back to his chess board and said to the man he was playing with, "I beg your pardon ... is it my move?" The Book. To fit a name which is now not well remembered, even as a legend of ridiculous shame, Author Hibben has patched together, out of old letters, old sermons, the remembrances of friends, a figure which is that neither of scarecrow nor monster but of a man, whose absurdities are entirely comprehensible, whose pretensions are more pathetic than laughable. Equipped with the abilities of a reporter as well as those...