Word: authorities
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Nephew of encyclopedic-minded Viscount Haldane, lord chancellor of the Ramsay Macdonald (1924) Labor cabinet; author of Daedalus and Callinicus in the widely-read "Today and Tomorrow Series" of prophetic essays (E. P. Dutton & Co.); prophet of the extinction of agriculture (by synthetic foods); savior of child life by his discovery of ammonium chloride as a cure for convulsions...
...Medical Research since 1901; trustee of the Carnegie Institution since 1906; a Brigadier General in the Officers Reserve Corps (he served in the Army during the War) ; holder of the Distinguished Service Medal and many another; recipient of a string of honorary degrees from U. S. and foreign universities; author of many standard texts on pathology...
Explanations abound, correcting many a roseate popular illusion, alleviating the author's feelings and his passion for unvarnished verity. They are mostly revelations of people, beheld in their reactions to McDougall or his cartoons of them. J. P. Morgan Sr. was small-minded about his big nose; Rudyard Kipling, rude; Tom Nast, vain and petty; Mark Twain, grumpily grudging; Thomas Wanamaker, "a nasty little commercial person"; Woodrow Wilson, "a sort of swift floor-walker's smirk"; Joseph Pulitzer, a social climber, ingenious blasphemer ? for instance, the epithet, "too inde-god-dam-pendent...
...play itself was originally entitled "Make-Believe", but was changed when the author was reminded of A. A. Milne's play of the same name. Making believe was the sin of Adam Baxter. He had always longed for knowledge, had always hoped to learn to read: but he never had succeeded. His longing was so keen, however, and his innate love of books so great, that he brought quite a number of volumes, irrespective of their contents...
TINSEL?Charles Hanson Towne?Appleton ($2). Author Towne has been moved to chronicle a Midland social climber; how she scrambled as high as Newport and Palm Beach, barked her plump shins and returned at last to the shade of the family awning factory in Eureka. Her son, daughter and husband suffered in kind. The idea was to make it a gently humorous tale, and the Eureka Independence Day tableau starts things off well?Delia Nesbit, the awning queen, as Miss Columbia, and other Eureka dames assigned states according to social pedigree. But too many of the author's other ideas...