Word: authorities
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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EDWARD J. ARO (Author...
...Bruce Barton, aged 89, Amherst '07, is president of the distinguished Manhattan advertising firm, Barton, Durstine & Osborn. A prolific author, his latest book is The Man Nobody Knows: A Discovery of Jeans...
Franz Werfel, the author, is concerned with the blind fling with which the gods dash the cup from mortal lips. Proverb calls it the slip. Werfel does not bother to define it. He is simply eaten up with a gigantic bitterness at a world which is given reason and at the same time irresistible fate, luck or a divinity that rips reason to ribbons. Werfel is annoyed because God has given him just enough sense to understand what an impotent fool he really is. This gloomy abstraction is woven into a play about a wealthy farmer's family to which...
...authors have made research on Character* They are headmasters of New England private schools. Their quarry is elusive, ideal, multiform. Like sensible men, each author has conducted that part of the work for which he is specially qualified. By this means a scheme of education for the modern boy is outlined thoroughly, authoritatively, in six chapters. The book recommends itself highly to parents and pedagogs...
Married. For the fifth time, Owen Johnson, famed novelist (The Varmint, Stover at Yale, etc.), to the sometime Miss Gertrude H. Bovee of Manhattan, successively the wife of Hugh Mackay and of John A. Le Boutillier, who died in 1924; at Manhattan. Author Johnson's first wife, Miss Mary Gait Stockley of Lake wood, N. J., married him in 1901 and died in 1911. He married a singer, "Mme. Cobina" (Miss Esther Cobb), in 1912, but shortly afterwards they were divorced and he married Miss Cecile Denis de Lagarde, who died in 1918. In 1921 he married Miss Catharine...