Word: authorities
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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American prejudices against the "Bally English" in conflict with English misconceptions of "boorish Americans" furnish the central Tenma. With a strange mixture of sympathetic concern and amusement the author views those absurd ideas that Americans have of England and the equally warped opinions that the English hold of America and its "natives". It is the old idea of the folly of prejudices. Perhaps this is why the author employs a conventional plot and technique and stock characters...
During the war Mr. Furlong served at first in the cavalry but later was assigned to the military intelligence section. In addition to being an extensive contributor to magazines, Colonel Furlong has won recognition as the author of several books on travel and adventure. He holds medals from several foreign governments in recognition of his services during...
...time of the Dreyfus affair, France flung himself into the defense of the persecuted Jew with tremendous fervor, side by side with Emil Zola. Later, an Officer of the Legion of Honor, he hotly opposed the expulsion from that body of Victor Margueritte, author of La Garconne...
...crime is a spiritual slaughter of a highly charged barbarian who is being educated in the current unworldliness of a wealthy home. She seeks solace from the daily burden of propriety with a drink-dishevelled author. Then she dreams. She dreams in a modernistic manner, reminiscent of the weird episodes in The Adding Machine...
...sport. I admit, to tear to pieces in Shavian wit, a play of a book or a magazine. But I doubt (this is no more than a snap judgment whose accuracy has no bearing on my argument) if even the bombastic Mr. Shaw, after ridiculing a play calls its author an idle dillettante, without first making very sure of his ground...