Word: authorities
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Married. William Beebe, 50, famed scientist, explorer, author; to Miss Elswyth Ricker ("Elswyth Thane"), 27, novelist; on a yacht off Oyster Bay, L. I. Present were Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt Sr. & others. Mr. Beebe was divorced from his first wife, the onetime Mary Blair Rice, in 1913. One week later she married one Robin Niles of Manhattan...
...established a concern for the dissemination of books. George Henry Doran also was a stubbornly ambitious office boy- in Toronto and Chicago publishing houses. In 1909 he founded his own publishing company. The new Doubleday, Doran & Co. proposes to be the most efficient existing avenue down which an author's ideas, facts & fancies may ride to the bookshelves of the world. Doubleday, Doran & Co. is certainly the most potent book publishing concern in the U. S. which owns its own production plant. Doubleday, Doran & Co. has already (through Doubleday, Page) started a chain of U. S. bookstores which will...
...caused, will cause in multitudes of unstable and sentimental readers. Yet it would be unfair to hint that the sentimentality of Dusty Answer is a false emotion. Though it may be an exaggerated one, its exaggeration is a sincere illusion, not a self-conscious parade of intensity. Moreover Author Lehmann writes with a sensitive and fine precision, she betrays in herself an exquisite perception of subtleties in her characters-most marked when she is writing about children. Readers may well suppose that Author Lehmann wisely creates out of her own experiences. Like Judith Earle she has come early...
...wind and river; these are the paraphernalia of geology, the most spectacular, if the most inexact of sciences. Most laymen have no notion of its reaches, beyond a superficial jargon, culled from newssheets, of meaninglessly enormous chunks of time and space. For such laymen as prefer facts to fantasies, Author Benson ably, if condescendingly, puts forward geological facts (e.g.-the air ten miles above the equator is colder than that ten miles above the arctic circle; rainbows are round, so that no fossil-picks are required to apprehend them...
...correct of critics. . . . His tailoring is immaculate, there is about him just a trace of his trucking days. ... He is discordant, often awkward, lacking in versatility. . . . Tremendously effective. . . ." It is difficult, in writing the biography of a living statesman, to indicate his character without becoming technically libelous. This difficulty Author Pringle has met rather than avoided. The man who heard Trinity Bells calling him to be four times Governor of New York was no Eastside toughy, as many have supposed; he owes much of his success to his archenemy, William Randolph Hearst; a Jewish woman is one of his most...