Word: authorities
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Chancellor of the British Exchequer: "I called upon Signor Mussolini at Rome last week, and succeeded in convincing newsgatherers of the purely social nature of my visit by going out to the ruined Baths of Caracalla daily and working hard to sketch and paint them, facile artist-statesman-soldier-author that...
...collection includes pearly four hundred books and pamphlets together with many leaflets printed for Lewis Carroll's child friends, puzzles, original drawings, letters, and notes by the beloved author-mathematician, whose real name was Charles Lutwidge Dodgson. Added to the material already in its possession, this gift makes the Harvard College collection of Lewis Carroll's works and memorabilia as fine as any in existence...
Especially interesting, and the most valuable item, is a copy, bound in vellum for presentation, of the first edition of "Alice in Wonderland, London, 1865." This edition was recalled by the author, and the publishers sold the sheets to D. Appleton & Company, New York, who issued the book with a new title-page dated 1866. For a long time the edition published in London in 1866 was considered the first. A copy of this edition in the collection has, as frontispiece, an unusual plate hand-colored by Tenniel, the artist...
...manuscripts must be mailed to the Intercollegiate Literary Contest Harper's Magazine, 49 East 33rd Street, New York City, not later than midnight on March 5, 1927. Each manuscript must be typewritten, must bear the name and address of the author, and must be accompanied by a self-adressed envelope bearing sufficient stamps for the return of the manuscript...
...final choice of the prize-winners will be made by a Board consisting of three distinguished writers. They are Henry Seidel Canby, Editor of "The Saturday Review of Literature" Elinor Wylie, author of "The Orphan Angel," and William McFee, author of "Command" and "Casuals...