Word: authorities
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Viscount Grey, onetime Foreign Secretary, once remarked: "Mr. Winston Churchill has achieved distinction in at least five different careers-as a soldier, a war correspondent, a lecturer, an author and last, but not least, as a politician...
...play, as every one knows, is one of the most conversationally glittering that Wilde wrote. The genre is well described in a book* just published which purports to contain spirit messages direct from the author: "My plays were scarcely drama. They were more the weaving of character into a pattern; and this, with the use of language which I chose in each instance, to illustrate the surface of the human being. I did not propose to go deeply into the heart, as it is called-that organ, which is so frequently maligned, did not interest me." In this book Author...
...state champion pole-vaulter, a college basketball captain of all-Western calibre. When they heard he had won the oratorical title, his college mates rushed to prepare a demonstration at the railroad station. He had joined the distinguished roster of national intercollegiate eloquence champions, a roster including an author, a bishop, a governor, senators (including the late LaFollette, the retired Beveridge), six college presidents and many another Who of Who's Who. Incidentally, he had won for Wabash her fourth national championship in seven years, her second in succession. "If," said Elocution Professor Brigance with pardonable pride, "if there...
...nameless author: "The Pulitzer prize is a very silly thing. Prizes given to reporters, cartoonists, editorial writers, advertisers have some relevance because they bring to public notice fine work which would otherwise be forgotten, but a prize given to a well-known novel, play, poem, has the effect of making people think of that piece of work as "the best." There is no best. Nor is the prize money much help to the writer that has received it. It comes to him only after he has achieved some major success; and to give a man $1,000 for a novel...
...Venice. Lavinia Johnstone, preserved by her friends as the symbol of their bloodless conventionality, undergoes strange fevers in the presence of a champion gondolier, calls herself Simonetta Perkins to absorb the shock, bids him?late one night?take her up an obscure canal, hesitates, is lost, countermands the order. Author Hartley admires Author Max Beerbohm...