Word: authorities
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Tokyo the respected Masaomi Hirayama, priest of Buddha, author of admired tracts concerning The Four Noble Truths and The Holy Eightfold Path, was gravely congratulated by his fellow priests, last week, on having observed for 48 years those virtues which caused the ancient sages to exclaim : "Serene and blessed is the Buddha. . . . Lo, so many distinguished nobles lead now a religious life under the direction of the Blessed One that fathers will soon beget no more children...
...Stewart Edward White, big game hunter and author, has described ectoplasmic emanations which were invisible even in the dark, which were felt as cold areas near the medium. If ectoplasm was pinched, the medium exclaimed and clasped herself...
This stirring history is republished now as a matter of public amusement; yet grave doubts may be held whether all readers can yet withstand Author Allen's affecting periods. The world is now thought to be safe for democracy of the sexes, yet there is more than one reading for the tag in Critic Ernest Boyd's learned introduction: Plus ca change, plus c'est la méme chose...
...Marino, Calif., fortnight ago, was Sir Joseph Duveen, semi-Semitic, ornate dealer and author ity in Art. In San Marino lives Maecenas Henry Edwards Huntington (TIME, Nov. 8). Sir Joseph was visiting Maecenas Huntington. When he left (for Manhattan, where his chief gallery is located), announcement was gently allowed to be made that Maecenas Huntington had acquired of Sir Joseph three more 18th Century British portraits-a Gainsborough ("The Hon. Mrs. Henry Fane"), a Reynolds ("The Hon. Lavinia Bingham, Countess Spencer"), a Romney ("Lady Hamilton"). Which Lady Hamilton portrait by Romney was not specified (Romney did 30 of this...
This splendid ignoring of names and fames in connection with choosing the book of the month is a favorable indication to struggling writers Publishers are extremely wary of unpublished authors, and oftentimes a mediocre book may be carried to success by the name of the author. But when publishers see that the book itself is the object to be judged not the name of the author here will come a chance for the million masterpieces tucked away in burean drawers...