Word: authorities
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Schwimmer, a Hungarian, has an international reputation as author, lecturer, pacifist, has frequently accused the U. S. of "militarism." Her eloquence helped in persuading Henry Ford that he could take an ocean trip and stop the World War-a proceeding which was generally felt to have added much to the existent European impression of the U. S. as a country richly peopled with moneyed madmen...
Died. Ralph Van Vechten, 65, banker, brother of Carl Van Vechten, famed author (The Blind Bow-Boy, The Tattooed Countess, Nigger Heaven) ; in Chicago...
Southern notables assembled last week at Fletcher, N. C., to sing a song and unveil a tablet to the song's author, Daniel Decatur Emmett, who, though he never took his stand or lived or died south of the Mason & Dixon line,* nevertheless composed both the words and music of "Dixie." Son of Ohio and buried there, Composer Emmett is the adopted son of all "Dixieland." Yet the scene last week in the cemetery of Calvary Episcopal Church at Fletcher ("outdoor Westminster Abbey of the South") was the first of their kind; the tablet, Composer Emmett's first...
...articulate enough to smother with its excess every possible husband. It is a need of such unusual and innocent intensity that Alma's story, much of it in broken English, hovers constantly between the exquisite and the absurd. To dare this hovering was a brave thing and Author Fuller's feat of bringing Alma credibly through from naive immigrant to disillusioned but still saintly New England housekeeper, is a remarkable one. Her repeated rejections, by men so various as Niels, a brutish fellow immigrant, and Eric Rasmussen, a now prosperous childhood friend in distant Walla Walla; her capture...
...Author, long secretary and now wife of Poet Edmund Clarence Stedman, is grandniece of famed last-century Margaret Fuller* who edited The Dial with Emerson. The present Margaret Fuller is a quiet, industrious, self-critical lady who has let five years go by without releasing a novel to add to the reputation won for her with A New England Childhood (1916) and One World at a Time (1922). She lives at Norwichtown, Conn, (near New London...