Word: authorities
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Donn Byrne, author of Messer Marco Polo, Anatole France, Joseph Hergesheimer Mr. Cabell enjoys at least in part because he sees in them "the artist who labors primarily to divert himself." And that, says Mr. Cabell, is why he and all other artists create beautiful things beautifully...
...James Branch Cabell, in Straws and Prayer-books,** permits his admirers to share with him a reticent heartache at the depressing reflection that a few centuries hence his name may be emblazoned in literary memory only as "the author of Jurgen"? his other works known only to the discriminating...
...Manhattan the National Academy of Arts and Letters, elected five new members, bringing its total to an august SO. The five: ex-Senator Albert J. Beveridge, author of The Life of John Marshall; Royal Cortissoz, art critic; Henry K. Hadley, composer; Charles Downer Hazen, historian; Willard L. Metcalf, artist...
Deliberations followed. It was decided to give an Academy gold medal to Walter Hampden, actor, "for good diction on the stage"; an Institute gold medal to Edith Wharton, author, for her achievements in fiction. Ossip Gabrilowitsch, son-in-law of Mark Twain, late Academician, played for the session. In the absence of Professor William Milligan Sloane, Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler, chancellor, presided...
...Barton, onetime editor of the Home Herald, Housekeeper, Everyweek. author of The Ressurection of a Soul, etc., now has an even larger following as President of Barton, Durstine & Osborn, famed advertising agency...