Word: authorities
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...window to Joan of Arc in the Ethical Church of London contains a three-quarter length portrait of George B. Shaw and the late Anatole France. Questioned as to why he was in the picture, the author of the play Saint Joan replied with characteristic pretentious affectation: "You had better go and ask Anatole France...
...Author Gorky, Russian realist, feels beneath the surface of an episode for its obscure, its real causes. To him, reason is no sinew flexing and supporting life, but a scalpel for cutting into it. That he makes his most satisfactory discoveries among abnormal patients is not surprising in a man who experimented on himself as a boy by lying beneath freight trains...
...Significance. Author Belloc will be best remembered for two things: vigorous versatility and a magnificent English prose style. The Cruise of the Nona brings both into constant play. And of the two, the latter-as Author Belloc would agree if his humility matches his fervor- is the more important. Man being but an infirm creature, his convictions matter little, however brilliant and penetrating. But to couch convictions in beautiful words, to elaborate them faithfully beyond the perversive structures of Anglo-Saxon terseness, that is art, that is service...
...Author. Historian, military-theorist, economist, traveler, publicist, parliamentarian, humorist, philosopher, man of letters, parts, action and faith, Hilaire Belloc, 55, Oxford-educated son of a French barrister and a cultured Englishwoman, is (with his friend G. K. Chesterton) a leading British champion of Roman Catholocism...
...little Luther Memorial Church, in West Philadelphia, has a faithful pastor, one Julius F. Seebach. This summer, the Rev. Mr. Seebach took a much-needed holiday in Europe. No other preacher was engaged. Instead, Mrs. Julius Seebach, long rumored to have been the author of her husband's eloquent sermons, took the pulpit. Irritated female parishioners filed a protest with the Rev. Frederick H. Knubel, President of the United Lutheran Church...