Word: authorities
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...wrote Helen Hamilton Gardener, author of many charming books (including Pushed by Unseen Hands, An Unofficial Patriot, Men, Women and Gods) only woman member of the U. S. Civil Service Commission. She died a fortnight ago, aged...
...Author. In famed Manchester ("Doomington") Grammar School, Louis Golding was precocious among prodigies. At Queen's College, Oxford, he was an ostentatious aesthete, a mincing pedestrian with yellow hair all abroad and much thin-piping, decadent erudition. His poems and essays of the period (1919-22) run salt and shallow. Then he settled in the Tyrol, wandering north into Germany, south to Capri and Sicily. Seacoast of Bohemia (1924) gave evidence of a poseur shedding his false skins. Now, at 29, he seems to have written out of his bones...
Grand yarn-spinner though he is, Author Beach never on any account saves a tart twist...
...PLEASURE BUYERS-Arthur Somers Roche - Macmillan ($2.00). The creatures of Author Roche step right out of the more lustrous cosmetic, hosiery, neckwear and tobacco advertisements of our day-glossy-skinned puppets gliding through syncopated situations with all the smooth perfection that the Roche trade-mark guarantees. Herein the plot clots around a Palm Beach super-sheik with four yachts (named for the four winds), a pugilist-butler and a string of seductions that would put Casanova back in the kindergarten. Also present: a wronged War hero, a guileless moth, a seasoned misconductress. Who daggered the super-sheik...
Engaged. John Maynard Keynes, 42, famed British economist, author of A Revision of the Treaty, and The Economic Consequences of the Peace (which latter book caused a stir...