Word: authorities
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Lincoln is a son of Joseph Lincoln, well known as the author of novels of Cape Cod life. Graduating from Harvard two years ago, he worked for a year as a reporter on the staff of the Philadelphia Public Ledger. During the past year he has been associated with the Curtis Publishing Company as a writer and editor...
...ability to leer in a naughty fashion will often earn a witless fellow a reputation as a wag; luck in getting his books suppressed will bring an author to renown even though no one has ever read them. Shrewd Douglas H. Cooke, President of the Leslie-Judge Co., may not therefore have been altogether stunned when he was told last week that his funny-paper, Judge, was barred from the mails...
...Author. Educated in his native Rumania, Konrad Bercovici entered the U. S. in 1916 with his Rumanian wife. Soon his stories of gypsy life were appearing in The Pictorial Review, the Century, Harper's and other magazines. His name became a familiar one in the columns of The Nation, The New Republic, The Masses, and The Liberator, where he wrote on sociological questions from the vantage of an educated man, an immigrant to one of the most complex and multicolored cities on earth?New York. The completeness with which he assimilated the flavors, forces and antecedents of his new surroundings...
...attachment to his herd. All summer long he makes only three acquaintances?a cougar, a prospector and the prospector's daughter. Successively, in unreasoning passion, he kills the first two and takes the last for his mate. The power of the book, the excuse for it, is that the author, once a sheepherder, treats the protagonist as he treats the beasts in the story, as a dumb brute suffering without understanding. It is not a comedy, and unlike the Scandinavian treatment of such a theme it is not stark tragedy. It is simply a wild-animal tale, effectively told...
...most amusing of M. Bisson's famous plays," explained M. Perrin, for 20 years coach of the Cercle Francais dramatics, in a statement to the CRIMSON. "When first played on the French stage, it scored one of the greatest, if not the greatest, success of any of the author's works...