Word: authorities
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Bubbling Author Parrish Wins the Prize...
...Significance. The species of male vegetable herein exhibited has dragged out its parasitic existence in every garden of genteel society that ever grew. To Author Parrish, great credit for supplying her specimen with logical antecedents, convincing contemporaries and a setting so carefully cultivated that its chokers and crinolines are not only seen and heard but almost smelled...
...Author. A dainty young lady was doing deck sports in the Mediterranean when the steward reached her with a radiogram: "Perennial Bachelor wins second Harper $2,000 novel contest,-" or words to match. Swiftly she informed her husband, Charles A. Corliss, of Englewood, N. J. Joyfully she recalled a visit to her former home, Claremont, Del., when her mother had coined the title. After four years ransacking attics, museums, once-popular song folios, old journals and letters, Peterson's Floral Adornments for the Home of Taste, Friendship Albums, memories of elders and bygone fashion-plates (perhaps too many...
...Keeper of the Bees-Gene Stratton-Porter - Doubleday Page & Co. ($2.00). The violent conjunction of a limousine and a trolley-car, last year in Los Angeles, (TIME, Dec. 15, MILESTONES) caused this novel to stand as its author's last. The fact that...
...Manhattan, Charles E. Keck, President of the New York Rotary Club, lifted his voice against author Sinclair Lewis, creator of Babbitt, mocker of business clubmen, lodge brothers, realtors, Maccabees, Elks, Moose, Veiled Phophets etc. Said Rotarian Keck over the radio: "I'm going to take a fall out of Sinclair Lewis. . . He's due for it. If he were a big enough man to tell the story straight, it would be all right. But he fixes up a little city of Zenith, or whatever you call it, and has a little Rotary Club, and tells everybody that a Rotary Club...