Word: authorities
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Author. Events in the life of Willa Sibert Gather in no way reflect her steady growth from a college-girl reporter on the Pittsburgh Daily Leader to a deanship in American letters. Born of Virginian parents 49 years ago, she grew up in Nebraska, attending that state's university. From the Leader, she went to creative Writing, helped edit McClure's Magazine from 1906-12. She did not marry, but her literary offspring appeared at regular intervals, each more admirable than the last, until One of Ours took the 1922 Pulitzer Prize. In her quiet New York apartment...
...INCREASING PURPOSE-A. S. Hutchinson-Little, Brown ($2.00). Some people take the author of // Winter Comes for a well-meaning fellow, whose inarticulateness is brought on by a great and overpowering sincerity. Others profess to find in his lapses of grammar, Ids incessant repetition of hanging phrases and mazes of parenthetical elucidation, the traits of a deliberate genius for writing of the perplexing muddle known as Life to Average People. Still others, a critical few, whose censure affects the sales of Author Hutchinson's books about as much as it would discourage gum-chewing among U. S. salesladies, maintain...
...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 last night. "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...
...magazine, which had dwindled away to a very small size, is now greatly enlarged and clothed in a new blue cover designed by Thatcher Nelson '18, who's also supervised the typography. It's subtitle is "An Author's Monthly Forum...
...most prosaically shoots his enemy in a hot laundry or at best chops off his head with a meat cleaver in a hall bedroom. Such lack of consideration for reporters, such neglect of the movie career lying open to the artistic murderer brings one to the conclusion that the author of "Fu Manchu", anxious for his monopoly of mystery, has bribed the vengeful Chinese to be deliberately dull. If this guess be true, the tong member who so prostitutes his art, richly deserves the deportation awaiting...