Word: authorities
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...reconciled with her. The details of the story may be left to romancers and moralists. Last fall the Earl of Craven and his wife came to the U. S. and took up their residence with friends amid the fleshpots of Manhattan. The Countess Vera, pretty and petite, became an author, wrote three novels and a play, and also became engaged to a young English playwright, one Ralph Neale. Then, quite recently, Mr. Neale's fiancee decided to come to the U. S. to supervise the production of her play, Ashes...
...Author. Martin Hume of England brings scholarly documentation to his task. He was the official editor of the Spanish State Papers of the period (Public Record office), a careful student of all other relevant material, some of it newly accessible. He is author also of The Courtships of Queen Elizabeth, currently republished to match this volume. "Infernal Searchers...
...Author. Sarah Gertrude Millin has always lived in South Africa. She is the Jewish wife of a Johannesburg barrister. She writes for South African papers, including the Cape Times, whose literary column is by her; also for John Middleton Hurry's very earnest and intelligent Adelphi, in London. The Jordans was her first widely read work. Last year, God's Stepchildren, a study in miscegenation worked out like an inexorable chapter from the Old Testament, was very highly praised. Sequel...
...Interstate Oratorical Contest at Chicago in April. The famous interstate contest where young Robinson will compete has ranked many famous men among its winners. From its beginning in 1874 to 1902, it has had one-third of its winners listed in Who's Who in America-including one author, one governor, one bishop and two clergymen, two U. S. Senators, two U. S. Representatives, three lawyers, eight educators, including five college presidents. Wabash has won the Indiana contest five times in the past seven years, the national event three times since 1919. As he twitched and flashed about...
...Richet, homo sapiens is homo stultus, most stupid of animals, God's idiot. Most of which is the ranting of a dyspeptic physiologist. Whole herds of bison, seals, penguins and other contented animals are cited in contrast to homo stultus, but in the heat of the moment the author neglects to enlarge upon them specific attainments. He is a violent little Voltaire with faith in epithets and protoplasm, but not in philosophy. In 1913 he took a Nobel Prize for physiology, and to him wisdom is manifest in the perfect functioning of an animal organism unmolested by what others...