Word: authorities
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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General Sir George Wentworth Alexander Higginson, age 100, height six feet, beloved as "The Father of the Guards," author of Seventy-One Years of a Guardsman's Life (1916), beamed exultantly last week at the news that the Grenadier Guards' minimum height requirement has again been raised to the traditional six feet after being lowered to five feet ten a year ago because six-footers of good fighting calibre were growing scarce...
Distinguished gentlemen, dan gling golden keys from their watch-chains, made pilgrimage into his toric Virginia, to listen at Williamsburg to the mellow accents of Dr. Henry van Dyke, Princeton poet-patriarch; to hear a sweet-voweled memorial poem by Dr. John Erskine of Columbia (author, The Private Life of Helen of Troy and Galahad) ; to attend the prophetic utterance of Dr. Charles Franklin Thwing, president emeritus of Western Reserve University and president of Phi Beta Kappa, who dedicated before the gathering that scholarly brotherhood's $100,000 memorial auditorium. Dr. Oscar M. Voorhees, secretary...
...world. The publication of his Travel Diary of a Philosopher last year gained him his first wide hearing outside of Germany, being an account "not so much of countries and peoples as of civilizations and states of souls." This Diary moved the New York Times to compare the author with Dante. Dr. Glenn Frank thought: "Keyserling may turn out to be a John the Baptist." Even dour Dean Inge brightened and said: "A really profound and original book...
...researches. He thoroughly believes that alcohol in his system would tarnish it, slow it up. bring on a more speedy death. He believes the same of alcohol in the nation's system. Even before Prohibition, he took only "occasional sips of wine" at his friends' tables. The Author. Tireless Mr. Fisher is not content to remain a professor of the "dismal science."- He now devotes only half of the college year to lecturing at Yale. He early wandered off into Eugenics, Hygiene, World Peace-always the scholarly crusader. He is a member of a myriad of leagues, associations...
...silences came Alenka, peasant wench. But one hurried seance with her left him disgusted, horrified. Then, finally, came a letter from Katya. She was going away, as a mistress. "Don't write to me, my dear love, it is useless!" Mitya shot his brain pan off. The Author. Ivan Bunin, 56, writes with ease and economy. Intimate of the Russian Realists and Symbolists, in all his long writing career he has joined no "school." Russians extol him, but in English have appeared only The Village, in which he flays the grimy mouzhik, Dreams of Chang, which contains the sardonic...