Word: authorities
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...tilted corner from Guy Pene Du Bois?second-hand oddments tumbled from the artistic property-trunk that is Mr. Fry's memory. Brave among them was a portrait of Lytton Strachey. His beard was dank, red, hedged, jowl and cheek; clammy were his hands; unkissed, unblessed, looked this great author. Students, painters, gazed upon him, went away muttering about the Fire, the Frying...
...Osborne is the author of many widely read books on prisons and prison reform. The best of his writing include "Within Prison Walls," "The Adventures of a Green Dragon," and "Society and Prisons...
...thousand Harvard graduates at the present birth rate will be represented at the end of six generations by only 50 descendants--hardly' enough to make a good glee club," was the startling statement of Mr. A. E. Wiggam of New York City, a biologist and author who addressed the members of the National Civic Federation yesterday afternoon on the subject, "What is Civilisation Doing to Mankind...
Italo Montemezzi, the author of "L'Amore Dei Tre Re" and three other operas which have been received favorably both in Europe and in this country, will attend the performance as the guest of the opera company for the evening. Signor Montemezzi is the most famous of living Italian composers, while "L'Amore Dei Tre Re" is generally considered his greatest work. Its Boston-premiere took place in 1914, only one year after its original production in Milan. The story was written by Sem Benelli, one of Italy's foremost living laywrights, and the author of many other works...
This may become a commonplace occurrence anywhere in New York State in the near future. A bill has been introduced in the New York Legislature to make hypocrisy a crime. The author of the bill says he is aiming at proposers of blue laws. He would turn the scales upon the reform group and make them feel the hand of the law they have so often invoked...