Word: authorities
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Taft never received a cent from the Institute. Nor have I. On the contrary I have put several thousand dollars into its work, besides donating all the royalties of How to Live, of which I am co-author with Dr. Fisk, which has had nearly two hundred thousand copies sold...
...Parade, a cinema play of the War written by Laurence Stallings, co-author of What Price Glory, was taken from a four weeks' run on Broadway for a special one-night stand in the East Room of the White House. A 23-piece orchestra accompanied the film to Washington. Secretaries and Congressmen looked on as presidential guests...
Full and crystal-clear consideration traces the progressive relationship of a constitution "made in the days of the village blacksmith" to the titanic industry of our own age. But obviously the section on foreign relations most deeply engages the author's mind and heart. A source of serious concern to him is the ability of the House of Representatives by its revenue powers, of the Senate by its treaty powers, of the Supreme Court in judicial review, and of the several states by independent local action, to delay or nullify careful negotiations with the rest of the human race...
...Author of Pins for Wings, Snickery Nick, A Book of Love, and numerous versifications of poems translated into English by Chinese scholars; noted Brooklyn-born playwright...
...play was courageous at least. The author deliberately attacked the shrewd, irreverent group that eats luncheon at the Algonquin Hotel, Manhattan, jests bitterly at life and works. Mr. Seldes, though much in their line of work, has never been a member of the group. When he set out to write an impression of their home life and their hilarity, he put his head squarely in the lion's mouth. Whereupon the lion on the opening night roared happily and closed his jaws...