Word: authorities
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...McBride is no more related to Francis Scott Key than he is to Francis Scott Fitzgerald. Strange things have happened in the home of the brave and the land of the free, but for the general superintendent of the Anti-Saloon League of America to be related to the author of This Side of Paradise is a little too bizarre to be true. The author of Flappers and Philosophers and The Great Gatsby is indeed a connection of the author of "The Star-Spangled Banner." But not so the Anti-Saloon League Superintendent...
...Secretary of the Treasury Andrew W. Mellon read his new assistant's words he frowned instantly and sent for their author. Secretary Mellon kept Assistant-Secretary Lowman closeted for a solid hour, presumaby explaining that discretion is the better part of ardor...
Married. Richard Washburn Child, 46, author, onetime (1919) editor of Collier's magazine, one-time (1921-24) Ambassador to Italy; to his literary secretary, Miss Eva Sanderson; in Stroudsburg...
Five years later, the boy sold a short story and at 20 his first novel came out. His father died and for a while Author Oppenheim had to manage the family leather business in Leicester. Thereafter and down to the present stretched 40 years of turning out at least two novels per annum...
Never was more melodrama swept between two covers and seldom was it swept so well. Author Dehan's style is his fortune. Tumultuous, it confuses at first, until the long rhythms of a splendid imagination become apparent. Then, sustained overtones rise above the narrative?the bitter self-sufficiency of a betrayed Jew; the long-suffering humanity of a French monk in the wilderness; the earthy mysticism of aborigines who talk from hill to hill with smoke columns, declare war with muttering drums and ululate for a dying god when the sun is eclipsed...