Word: authorities
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...confused with Lytton Strachey, his 45-year-old cousin, likewise a famed essayist, author of Queen Victoria, Eminent Victorians...
...Author Santmyer taps a brimming current of village life in Ohio. The rarity and validity of Derrick Thornton's talent are deeply impressed. Her unachieved love is made a vital experience. Her rediscovery of life's universal imminence is compelling and beautiful. The book is richly written...
Died. Dr. Hugo Preuss, 65, chief author of the German Republican Constitution,* noted post-War German statesman, scholar, professor, jurist, sometime member of both the Prussian Diet and the Imperial Parliament, German Secretary of the Interior in 1918, and noted Jewish intellectual; at Berlin, mourned by almost the entire German press, with the exception of the extreme Monarchist sheetlets...
...Paris, one Harold E. Stearns, editor of the Criterion, author of Civilization in the United States, spoke of Author Sinclair Lewis. Said he: "Cad. . . bounder. . . tightwad. . . dumbbell." Irritated by an article in the American Mercury in which Author Lewis referred to him as "father and seer of the Cafe Dôme, who is an authority on living without laboring and who bases his opinions of people's intellectual capacity on the amount of money he can borrow from them," Editor Stearns continued...
...manuscripts is an original draft of the opening chapters of Conrad's "Lord Jim," one of the author's most brilliant psychological studies of character. The paper is much interlined, and shows what extensive changes were made by the author before the final draft was sent to the publishers. A comparison of the manuscript with the printed page is made easy by the way the manuscript is placed in the Treasure Room exhibit, the original draft and a printed volume being placed side by side...