Word: authorities
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Said John Erskine, author and Professor of English at Columbia University...
...Sorrento, Italy, Maxim Gorky, "The Bitter One," famed Russian novelist, became morbid, cabled Dr. Alexander Kaun of the University of California to commission him to write The Life and Times of Maxim Gorky. Dr. Kaun left immediately for the author's bedside...
...Nature in the steaming jungle of British Guiana. Other chapters-creeping, rustling, whirring, crashing, oozing with live things-centre on an inverted, deaf, lethargic, odorless, whistling sloth; the falling of jungle leaves; beachcombing at midnight; men and monkeys; a mangrove tree. His enthusiasm and patness often cast doubt upon Author Beebe's scientific veracity, but insure excellent reading. The style, vivid and highly charged with verbs and adjectives as exotic as the boat-billed toucans on the book's jacket, ranges from the masterly English of Galapagos and Jungle Nights, to sloppy jargon. In the midst of Author...
...Newberry Medal, established by one Frederic G. Melcher of Manhattan and awarded annually by the Association "for the most distinguished contribution to literature for children," was presented to Charles J. Finger, author-explorer-sheepraiser of Fayetteville, Ark., for his Talcs from Silver Lands...
Engaged. Margaret Kennedy, 28, author of The Constant Nymph, to one D. Davies, London barrister. Under the guidance of Thomas Hardy, she is working on a new novel...